Aijia Kefu: Your Majesty, please avoid

Chapter 138 The Empress Dowager Is Back

"What's wrong with her? Tell me!" Lu Li was so anxious that his throat was burning.

The midwife touched the ground with her head and cried: "The old slave is incompetent, he didn't stop the mother, she... she gave the child to..."

Lu Li slowly sat back on the couch and closed his eyes: "You just say it boldly."

The midwife gritted her teeth, and said bravely: "Your Majesty just gave birth to the baby, and the time the old slave turned around to serve hot water, she just...she strangled the baby to death! The old slave is incompetent and didn't stop her... Poor little prince who has just landed, didn't even have time to open his eyes, and when he was about to finish, he was still tightly clutching the empress's clothes with his little hands..."

"Enough!" Lu Li let out a roar, pressing his chest desperately, his whole face wrinkled from the pain.

"Changli, calm down!" Duan Ran hurried over, trying to comfort him.

Lu Li shook off Duan Ran's hand and raised his head, "You said that Ah Yuan...strangled that child to death?"

The midwife wiped her tears and said: "Yes. This old slave can't believe that there is such a cruel mother in the world..."

"What else did she do?" Lu Li asked hoarsely.

The midwife raised her head and said cautiously: "Your Majesty also found a piece of handkerchief, dipped it in the blood on the child's body and wrote a few words. The old slave didn't know what was written...Later, the Empress asked the old slave to take the little prince It was cleaned, wrapped in swaddling clothes, and sent to the palace together with the handkerchief and a Zhaojun condom... The old servant was afraid of getting into trouble, so he didn't dare to go back to the palace, so he hired a little beggar outside to deliver it..."

"That's right." Duan Ran frowned.

The midwife hurriedly kowtowed again, wiped her tears and said, "When the old slave went back to his hiding place, the mistress had disappeared. The old slave was afraid of getting a lawsuit, so he had to go out day and night these days, avoiding the officers and soldiers while looking for the mistress. ..."

Lu Li raised his hand to stop her words, and said in a hoarse voice, "'Father's debt is repaid by the son' - she actually hates me that much! Why didn't she come back to settle accounts with me, why did she treat the child...that's her own flesh and blood what!"

"Oh, the most poisonous woman's heart, you should have known it a long time ago." Duan Ran sighed a long time.

Lu Li leaned against the desk, covered his face with his hands, remained silent, immersed in grief.

Duan Ran walked slowly in front of the midwife, squatted down, and said in a low voice, "I know you're lying. Tell me the truth, and I'll protect you from death."

The midwife kowtowed three times and straightened her knees: "Everything I said is true, I dare not lie to the emperor! The old slave neither took good care of the empress nor protected the little prince. Your Majesty forgives—"

Before she could finish her sentence, she suddenly jumped up, took a few steps forward, and bumped into a corner of the confession case with a "bang".

"Oops!" Duan Ran yelled and walked over quickly.

Outside the hall, a young eunuch who was standing there bowed his head and quietly retreated.

Duan Ran reached out to lift the midwife up and frowned: "It's over, she's dead."

Lu Li raised his head.

Duan Ran spread his hands, helplessly: "I didn't ask anything. She obviously planned it in advance, and she died after she said what she should say."

"People outside, are you watching?" Lu Li frowned.

Duan Ran snapped his fingers triumphantly: "That's natural! I've been played with by them for so many days, if I'm not even prepared for this, I won't have to mess around in the future!"

Lu Li leaned back on the soft couch, and said in a deep voice, "You'd better not brag. These days, your performance is really not very good."

"Hey, it's not that I've behaved badly, but the enemy is too cunning!" Duan Ran felt a little wronged.

Lu Junnuo wiped his tears beside him and said, "I don't believe it! My mother wouldn't kill my brother! She likes him so much, how could she strangle him to death? It must be that bad old woman who did it! She killed my brother, I will kill him! She's shattered!"

Duan Ran patted his forehead and grinned: "Lu Li, your family's seniority is really..."

Lu Li raised his eyelids and gave him a supercilious look.

Duan Ran stretched out his arms to hug Lu Junnuo, and said with a smile: "Don't cry, little guy, your queen mother and 'brother' are not dead, they were just hidden by bad guys."

"Really?!" Lu Junnuo burst into tears immediately.

Lu Li supported the table and stood up slowly: "It seems that I should thank this woman... After so many days of worrying, what she brought is good news."

Lu Junnuo stood on tiptoe, looking at this and that, with a dazed expression on his face.

Duan Ran smiled and said: "That's right. It would be a bit credible to say that the child was born dead, but what they sent you over was clearly a child who was strangled to death—your child, of course, is alive." The dead are more useful than the dead, and only a fool will strangle the alive to you! This is useless except to make you sad and angry, but you are not Zhou Lang of the Three Kingdoms. !"

Lu Li sneered: "The reason they put all this effort is to create a rift between me and A Yuan, so that they can get in the way! If our expectations are correct, there must be someone stirring up the flames in A Yuan's place!"

Duan Ran stomped her feet and said, "This is not good! That woman is so stupid, if she is used by the time, you will be miserable!"

Lu Li said sadly, "She will definitely be weak after giving birth. If she believes in those people's tricks, she will be sad and angry again... I don't know if she can bear it."

"Come on, let's think about how to get her back now!" Duan Ran waved his hands impatiently.

Lu Li's expression became more and more gloomy: "Where to find it? I didn't find anything! The Golden Armored Guards have been searching door to door, but... there is no news."

Duan Ran sat down next to him: "Now, we can only hope that the little ear that retreated just now can bring us a little surprise."

Lu Li nodded, not feeling much relieved.

His Yuan, his child, still has no news.

Danyue supported the wall, and slowly moved in from the outside: "How do you know that the midwife is telling lies? In my opinion, maybe my lady hates you so much that she strangled the child to vent her anger! This will You don't know if Miss Er is alive or dead, but you are chatting and laughing here, which shows that you have no heart! If my young lady chooses to strangle your child, I will applaud her for doing a good job!"

Lu Li had no choice but to say, "You're angry with me, you just scolded me, why did you curse A Yuan and the child?"

"I didn't..." Danyue immediately covered her mouth.

Lu Li sighed, "It's not that I'm not worried about A Yuan, but judging from the enemy's small actions, they should still be useful for keeping A Yuan and the child, so I judge that A Yuan should be hidden somewhere, and there is no danger for the time being. "

Danyue is skeptical.

Lu Junnuo jumped up suddenly: "I know! Brother Huang and the master have long suspected that the child sent that day was not a younger brother at all, so when that damned midwife showed his flaws, Brother Huang immediately saw it!"

"Hey, I was the one who saw it first!" Duan Ran was very dissatisfied with Lu Junnuo's statement.

Danyue is still at a loss: "What flaw?"

Luoxia greeted a few young maids to bring a large table of food, and said with a smile: "If you really care about it, you will be confused, so you didn't see such obvious flaws? Obviously someone taught me what the midwife said just now. No one taught her that she should call our empress the 'Queen Dowager' instead of 'the empress' like us; also, she actually called the empress's child the 'Little Prince', and she didn't even care when the emperor called the empress by her name Surprised, don't you find it strange?"

Danyue listened in a daze for a while, then suddenly slapped herself hard on the forehead.

Lu Junnuo slapped his hands and laughed loudly: "Sister Danyue is even stupider than me!"

Danyue was ridiculed for a while, but she was not angry at all.

She grabbed Luoxia's hand and grinned: "So, the empress may really be safe and sound?"

Luoxia looked at her, and replied cautiously: "It's very possible."

Lu Li said in a deep voice, "I will definitely not let anything happen to her."

"Talk about who won't!" Danyue sneered, and limped out with her head held high.

Duan Ran made a gesture on his face, and said embarrassingly to Lu Li, "It's so embarrassing, to be taught to be honest by a little maid!"

Lu Li had no choice but to say, "A Yuan's people, how dare I offend you!"

Now, even Luoxia and Lu Junnuo covered their mouths and laughed.

Lu Li had been having trouble sleeping and eating for many consecutive days, and today he finally ate a little more, so happy that Xiao Luzi was reciting Buddha's name outside the door.

In the afternoon, Lu Li was reading the military memorial, when suddenly a soldier in gold armor came to report, saying that the Empress Dowager had news.

Startled, Lu Li immediately stood up, "Where is it?"

The soldier said cautiously: "At the gate of the palace, Qi Shen led them to find it, and it will be sent over soon."

"Take me there—take me there quickly!" Lu Li became impatient, straightened his clothes, and rushed out while speaking.

The people below had no choice, they didn't even dare to pass on the chariot, and ran directly to pull the fastest horse.

Lu Li rode his horse and galloped all the way until he reached the gate of the palace, only to see a few porters walking slowly forward carrying a small green gauze sedan chair.

Qi Feng, the head of the Golden Armored Guards, saw Lu Li, and hurriedly ordered the bearers to kneel down on the ground: "Thanks to the emperor's blessing, the queen mother has been found!"

Lu Li got off the saddle, bypassed the crowd, and rushed to the front of the sedan chair, "A Yuan, is that you?"

No one in the sedan chair responded.

Lu Li tried his best to force a smile, then softened his voice and said, "A Yuan, it was my fault that I didn't take good care of you before—there were a lot of misunderstandings between us, you have to give me a chance to explain slowly...you must be tired , let's go back and talk, okay?"

A low "hmm" came from inside the sedan chair, which was regarded as an answer.

Lu Li wept with joy.

Qi Feng hurriedly instructed the bearers to get up and lift the sedan chair, everyone was full of joy.

Lu Li clutched the car curtain, reluctant to let go.

The bearers didn't dare to say anything when they saw this, so they had to stand and wait while carrying the sedan chair.

Lu Li endured and endured, but he was still reluctant to let go, so he boldly opened the car curtain: "Don't be annoyed, I still want to be with you..."

"Ah!" The person in the sedan chair exclaimed, raised his hand subconsciously, and covered his face with his sleeve.

Lu Li was startled: "What's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing." The other party quickly put down his sleeves and raised his head.

Lu Li's joyous heart immediately sank, and the expression of joy and sorrow on his face froze suddenly, and gradually disappeared.

"Your Majesty..." The person in the sedan chair looked at him anxiously.

Lu Li stood silently for a while, then stretched out his hand to the sedan chair, "Come down."

The person in the sedan chair hesitated for a moment, then slowly raised his hand and placed it in his palm.

Lu Li didn't hold her hand, but grabbed her wrist and pulled it out violently.

The man was so light that he was almost dragged into the air—flew out of the sedan chair and fell heavily to the ground.

The Zhuchai are scattered and their beauty pales.

Lu Li stared fixedly at that face.

really not bad.

Their faces are at least seven points similar, and with the deliberately modified makeup, they look like nine points at first glance.

The missing part is probably Shen Yun.

His A Yuan is stubborn and undisciplined by nature, unless he puts on airs deliberately, he has never been upright and elegant.

This woman is obviously a well-educated boudoir girl, even at this moment of embarrassment, she still has to carefully protect the corners of her skirt, for fear that her shoes will be exposed and it will be rude.

It's a pity, such cautious and polite women are everywhere, but he has only one A Yuan.

Lu Li turned around and looked at Qi Feng who was kneeling on the ground again: "Where did you find a pheasant and send it to the palace to pretend to be a phoenix?"

Qi Feng's face turned pale with fright: "Weichen, I found it according to the portrait..."

"Looked for it from the portrait? Didn't you ask her if she was? Could it be that she can't speak?" Lu Li asked in a deep voice.

Qi Feng kowtowed like garlic: "The queen mother... the girl can speak naturally, but..."

Lu Li sneered and interrupted him: "Since she can speak, she won't deny it even if you admit it wrong? Or, do you want to say that she lied to you, that she herself dared to pretend to be the queen mother?"

The woman slowly got up, and knelt on the ground with all her clothes on: "My daughter is Ling Qiaoer, the daughter of a member of the bureaucracy, Wai Lang, not the empress dowager. My daughter has never deceived this general. This crime of deceiving the emperor , and the courtiers dare not accept it."

Qi Feng suddenly raised his head: "What did we say earlier, you actually..."

Ling Qiaoer looked indifferent: "Before you said that I have a noble appearance, and persuaded my parents to send me into the palace to serve the emperor. When I got on the sedan chair, you still called me 'girl', I don't know why When you got off the sedan chair, you changed your seniority, and somehow became the 'Queen Dowager'?"

Lu Li's face had already darkened: "Okay, Qi Feng, you're fine!"

Qi Feng heard that this was wrong, and dared not respond.

Lu Li supported the green gauze sedan chair, coughed twice, and sneered, "Who gave you the guts to use a fake to perfuse me? Do you think I'm blind or stupid?"

Qi Feng hurriedly kowtowed and said anxiously: "I was confused for a moment, and I deserve to die! I just heard that the emperor has been looking for the queen mother for a few days and doesn't think about food and drink, so...so I got a crooked mind, thinking about finding someone with a similar appearance. My daughter came to widen the emperor's heart..."

"So, it's time for me to reward you for your loyalty!" Lu Li sneered, mockingly.

Qi Feng was so frightened that he couldn't speak a word.

It was only now that Duan Ran chased after Lu Junnuo with his arms in his arms. When he saw the woman kneeling on the ground, he was stunned for a moment.

Lu Li said in a deep voice, "Qi Counselor is very loyal. If I don't reward him, I'd be ignorant—pass the order and give him a good burial!"

Qi Feng thought that he really wanted to reward him, but when he heard the word "burial", his face immediately turned pale.

Lu Li looked at the other people kneeling on the ground, gritted his teeth, and added, "Qi Feng's old troops are responsible for seventy soldiers each, and they will be demoted and retained. As for you—"

He pointed to the bearer who was kneeling on the ground: "Tattooing your face is a mark, and you will be punished as a lowly citizen as a slave for generations, and you will never be released!"

Several bearers immediately collapsed on the ground in fright.

Entering the palace this time, they thought it was a coincidence of luck, but they didn't expect to fall from the clouds into the mud all of a sudden. The gap can be imagined.

Lu Li looked at their fear and despair, and the anger in his chest finally subsided a bit.

It's time for these unscrupulous people to taste the feeling of loss - no one knows how much it hurts the moment he lifted the car curtain and hit his heart hard.

He thought with joy that the torment of the past few days had come to an end, mixed with sorrow and joy, uneasy, and exhausted all his courage to dare to lift the car curtain, full of hope that he could see his A Yuan.

What greeted him was a pair of strange and ignorant eyes!

At that moment, Lu Li clearly felt that he had gone back and forth from death to life, and from life to death.

Even if they are very similar, this woman is still not his Yuan.

Lu Li looked down at the woman in disgust.

Ling Qiao'er was looking up at him with a calm expression, without much fear.

Lu Li sneered.

He had just killed one Cheng Ruoshui, and soon another came.

Do these women really think that he will look at them differently if they pretend to be confident and calm?
ridiculous.

Lu Junnuo shrank into Duan Ran's arms, frowning tightly: "That person is not the queen mother! The smell on her body is disgusting!"

Duan Ran leaned in front of Lu Li with a smile, and stuffed Lu Junnuo into his arms, "Hey, what are you going to do with this woman?"

Lu Li frowned, and the word "kill" lingered on his lips for a long time, but finally he couldn't say it.

Facing such a face, in his heart... after all, it was inevitable that there was something strange.

After a while, he sighed silently: "Leave it alone, we'll talk about it when Ah Yuan comes back."

"Hey, aren't you afraid that she will get angry with you for this?" Duan Ran was anxious.

Lu Junnuo also interjected: "The queen mother must not like her!"

Lu Li turned his back and said irritably, "If she is angry, she should come back and quarrel with me! What's the matter with hiding from me?"

Duan Ran spread his hands: "Okay, you are the emperor and you have a reason, keep it!"

Anyway, he is afraid that the world will not be chaotic, and if he keeps this woman, maybe there will be more good shows to watch in the future!
The more Duan Ran thought about it, the more excited he became. Seeing that Lu Li was gone, he ordered the little eunuch to help Ling Qiaoer up and send him to Yikun Palace.

It's not far from Chaoqian Hall and Yangju Hall, after that—hehe.

Duan Ran stretched out his hands to pinch Ling Qiaoer's familiar little face, and smiled so obscenely.

Ling Qiaoer shuddered, and took two steps back with a pale face: "I am the emperor's man, son, please respect yourself!"

Duan Ran laughed out loud.

Lu Junnuo followed suit, and stretched out his small hands to pinch Ling Qiaoer's face: "Tsk tsk, are you from the emperor's brother? The toads in this palace also claim to be the emperor's brother's toad, and the cockroaches also claim to be the emperor's brother's." Cockroaches, however, are useless, Brother Huang doesn't know them."

Ling Qiaoer's fair cheeks gradually became strangely red, and then gradually turned from red to purple, from purple to blue.

Lu Junnuo looked funny, clapped his hands and jumped up: "This fake is not as good as the mother queen in everything, except for one thing - she changes her face much faster than the mother queen!"

Ling Qiaoer frowned, with a look of impatience: "Qiaoer is tired. If the two young masters have nothing else to do, I will take a step first..."

"Presumptuous!" Lu Junnuo straightened his face.

Ling Qiaoer was stunned.

The eunuch next to him hurriedly shouted: "An ignorant bitch, how dare you be rude to the prince!"

Surprised, Qiaoer quickly knelt down: "Qiaoer doesn't know that you are the prince, if you offend me, please forgive me!"

"I don't want to 'forgive', what do you think?" Lu Junnuo rolled his eyes and asked with his head held high.

Ling Qiaoer was speechless, knelt down on the ground and shivered.

Duan Ran narrowed his eyes and looked at her probingly.

This woman is getting more and more interesting.

In front of Lu Li, she pretended to be calm and calm, but when it came to Lu Junnuo, she was very good at showing weakness—an ordinary woman would definitely not be able to do this.

It was even more fun to come here prepared.

Duan Ran casually hugged Lu Junnuo, and said with a smile, "Forget it, it's just a pheasant, so there's no need to argue with her."

"It's best not to let me see her again!" Lu Junnuo puffed up his chest and said angrily.

Duan ran took two steps with him in his arms, turned around suddenly, and saw the fierce light in Ling Qiaoer's eyes that he hadn't had time to hide.

"Tsk tsk!" Duan Ran praised twice, and gave her a thumbs up.

Ling Qiaoer looked at him in surprise, with an inexplicable expression.

***
Among the folks in the suburbs of Beijing, in an ordinary courtyard, Su Qingyuan was sitting in a daze in the courtyard, wearing a thick headscarf.

It's the fourth day.

Regarding her child, no matter how she insinuated, Aunt Nian never revealed any more information.

Just say it's dead.

Su Qingyuan still didn't believe it.

As soon as she closed her eyes these few nights, she could see her children—crying, laughing, kicking their calves, their soft little fingers scratching and scratching in the air...

A living child, when she was in the womb, she could even see his little hands and feet through the belly-how could it be gone?

Su Qingyuan often became suspicious at the beginning. When she saw the shadow of a tree shaking or heard a wild cat jumping in the yard, she couldn't help getting up to look. She always felt that her child should be back.

This is a very dire omen.

Su Qingyuan knew it shouldn't be like this, but she couldn't control herself.So she had no choice but to sit in the yard, so as not to hide in the dark room and have more and more strange thoughts.

Aunt Nian came back from the outside, saw her, and sighed: "You always think so wildly, can the child come back? I have never seen you so determined! You are still young, how many children do you want in the future? You always You can't pay your own life for a short-lived little evil, right?"

Su Qingyuan supported a hibiscus tree next to her, and slowly stood up: "I will not die...the child's revenge has not been avenged, how can I die willingly!"

"It's good if you can see it," Aunt Nian sighed, "Although you shouldn't see the wind during the confinement period, you are not a person who is willing to stay peacefully. I will accompany you out for a walk tomorrow to relax."

(End of this chapter)