Chen Palace

Chapter 56 Setting the blame (the whole one more chapter tonight)
In the dark palace, the pearls and jades he wears emit a lustrous light, such a good young man in troubled times, even if he is sighing, he is still as handsome as the person in the painting.

The queen always regarded him as a modest gentleman, but when she saw this scene, she was horrified.

She held her breath and continued to peep quietly through the fingernail-sized hole.

The Empress Dowager put the green jade balls in her hand into a sandalwood box. After hearing this, she didn't answer, but picked up the rose ice dew on the table and sipped it slowly.

After a while, she finally opened her mouth and said: "The emperor did this for your own good—if Youzhou is really bestowed on you, I'm afraid your life will be in danger!"

King Jing smiled bitterly and said, "Queen, you don't have to comfort me—the emperor treats me like this, and everyone in the world knows that he is worried about his siblings, but I don't know that I have something to say... If I had known this, I shouldn't have delusional thoughts." State!"

When the queen mother heard the words, she put the glazed teacup back on the desk, with cold anger on her brows: "It's my idea to let you go to Youzhou, which villain dares to talk!"

The queen was startled when she heard the words. In the harem, she also heard some rumors in the court. Some said that King Jing was brave enough to take on important tasks and was almost assassinated by Tatar assassins. Asking for this reward caused this innocent disaster, and now it sounds like it was the Empress Dowager's order!

The queen mother breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "I thought you would sit in Youzhou, so that you could coordinate affairs between the court and King Xiang, and also mention something about King Xiang—he is also your uncle, and he has always been proud and arrogant. Jun, besides you and the emperor, who in this world can restrain him?"

What the Queen Mother said was sincere and sincere, but the Queen knew it immediately. She was afraid that the emperor would be unfavorable to King Xiang and let him "die on the battlefield" at a certain juncture, and she was also afraid that King Xiang would have a heart of treason and would treat the court as his own. If nothing.

The queen thought about it carefully, and couldn't help secretly praising the queen mother for her foresight. Thinking of her future, she would have to think as hard as she did, and felt pity in her heart——

Is this the fate of those in power in the Lin family?
King Jing sighed: "It's a pity that the emperor doubts me too much. If I knew this, I would go south early to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Suzhou and Hangzhou. On the 24th bridge, I will play the flute with jade people. Wouldn't it be nice?"

The queen mother smiled and glanced at him: "You are still messing around like this...Earlier, there was a censor who participated in your licentiousness and had an affair with the ladies in Beijing. Virtuous?"

King Jing smiled slightly, and said nonchalantly: "It's a real famous man who is self-styled...I'm not the emperor's brother, I am solemn and calm all day long, and I want to look like an emperor-I will be my romantic prince!"

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager's eyes flickered, but she smiled and said: "You two brothers, you really have a pair of temperaments, one is calm and meticulous, and no one can see the clues, while the other is unrestrained, willful and unrestrained. for!"

She seemed to have thought of something else, with a worried expression on her face: "Speaking of which, the emperor is my own child, but I have never understood what he was thinking since I was a child, but you, who play naughty and coquettish with me all day long, others don't know, they think you I was also conceived in October and gave birth."

King Jing seemed unable to restrain the excitement in his heart. He got off his seat and paced back and forth in the hall.

The wick of the candle jumped at this moment, and the light exploded. From the hole the size of a fingernail, the queen saw his eyes——

In King Jing's eyes, there is actually a blazing cold resentment!

She trembled in shock, her hands and feet were cold and numb, she wanted to back away, but she couldn't obey!

King Jing turned his head and knelt down solemnly facing the Queen Mother.

"What are you doing?!"

The Queen Mother wondered.

King Jing's eyes were a little red: "I lost my mother and concubine since I was a child, and I depended entirely on you to bring me up. As long as my mother gives an order, I will go through fire and water, and I am willing, but now, the emperor's suspicion of me is already deep. There are all kinds of unbearable things in the meantime, I really can't share your worries!"

"What unbearable thing?!"

When the queen mother heard this, she was surprised. She thought the emperor had heard a few gossips before she became suspicious.

"Mother, do you know that in the court hall that day, there was a servant of the Ministry of Rites who was inseparable from me, and an assassin was hiding in his house, intending to take my life?"

Seeing the Empress Dowager nodding, he continued: "He Fei's words in the court were not disrespectful, the way is that his assistant is the Son of Heaven, not a traitor. Think about it carefully, Empress Mother, isn't this too shocking? What he was referring to..."

He was so excited that he couldn't continue, the queen mother listened quietly, and then said: "It's alluding to you."

"My son was shocked when he heard this sentence. At that time, he felt that something was wrong. Afterwards, I investigated carefully and got this!"

He took out something from his sleeve, and saw that it was a short serrated blade, wrapped with bright silk thread, with awe-inspiring edge.

"It was found from the scene where the minister was assassinated!"

The Empress Dowager took over the dagger and looked intently, her face turned pale——

"This is the time of the late emperor..."

She didn't want to say any more, her voice was a little choked up.

"This is the standard weapon of the Secret Tiqi during the time of the late emperor!"

King Jing said seriously.

"The so-called assassins are not sent by the Tatars at all, but from within the Celestial Dynasty. The only ones who can instruct them are..."

He seemed so overwhelmed that he couldn't speak any more.

"You don't need to say anything!"

The Empress Dowager's face was ashen, her eyes slightly narrowed——

"I gave birth to a good son!"

She gritted her teeth and sneered, unable to restrain the rage in her heart any longer, she threw the sandalwood box containing the emerald double balls on the ground——

"At the beginning of this series of assassination incidents, I was poisoned and dying! I really gave birth to a good son!"

There was only a crisp cracking sound, and the jadeite fell to the ground, breaking into dozens of petals.

These jadeite double balls are round and clear, with a bar like green jade, they are very precious to look at, even if they are broken into pieces, the phoenix carvings on them can still be clearly seen.

The queen mother leaned over, gently picked up a piece, put it in front of her eyes, and stared quietly.

There was a long silence in the hall.

The wick of the beeswax Beaulieu candle trembled slightly, and the light and shadow fluttered, projecting on her face, so chaotic and unclear.

"This is also offered by your brother..."

After a while, the queen mother said quietly——

"He has always been a filial child!"

Her voice burst out from the darkness, appearing treacherous and far-reaching.

Jing Wang sat and listened, but did not answer.

"He has always been a dutiful child... But, I never understood his thoughts-this time is no exception."

The queen mother's voice was neither furious nor sad, but slightly tired and sad.

"When I woke up from poisoning that day, I felt faintly uneasy - the pill was only passed through the hands of two people, one was Daoist Yuxu, and the other was the doctor of the imperial physician - he was originally a doctor, but The emperor personally supported Jane."

The Queen Mother sneered and said: "Yuxu is a Taoist priest who understands current affairs. He is from the Dragon and Tiger Mountain lineage and has never been favored by the Emperor. If it is not for my protection, he will definitely not be able to gain a foothold in the capital. Therefore, the murderer will not be him."

The queen peeped through the hole, and listening to it at this moment, her whole heart sank.

She was out of control and crazy that day, and in her words, she had a lot of doubts about the emperor. Now that the nightmare has come true, she can no longer restrain her trembling. Only the words of Concubine Mei Gui echoed repeatedly in her mind——

Do you want to retreat to Nagato's cold palace like the abolished empress of the Han Dynasty?

Do not!
She screamed from the bottom of her heart——

no way!

The queen's Koudan nails were deeply embedded between the bars of the window lattice, almost breaking off.

She forced herself to calm down, stood up tremblingly, accidentally kicked the gravel, she grabbed the peach tree just in time, so she didn't fall, but the dark green silk skirt, which was full of phoenixes, was stained with a large amount of mud.

She became more and more flustered, only to feel that there seemed to be two sharp eyes behind her, watching like fire.

At the other end of the vermilion wall, several black crows flew by, making hoarse and ominous calls. The peach forest at the back of the palace was completely devoid of people, and there was a kind of eerie silence.

The queen was afraid and didn't dare to stay for a long time, so she rolled up her skirt and staggered away.

She ran forward without daring to look back, but she didn't know that behind her, there were two figures jumping down from the roof of the hall——

"Even people like the queen have their own plans. I'm afraid this game of chess will really mess up!"

Chen Lu frowned slightly, looking up at the flock of crows in the sky, as if she felt the death and ominous aura.

"No matter how chaotic, we will be the final winners!"

Qu Yun comforted him.

(End of this chapter)