Rebirth of the Abandoned Concubine: The Poison Goddess Doctor

Chapter 299 House arrest, the queen mother's nightmare
Emperor Ming glanced at Yingchu, frowned and said, "Why haven't you left yet?"

Chang Shun hurriedly said: "It's the servant who sees how big the snow is, so he asked someone to prepare a sedan chair to take the county monarch. The servant makes his own decisions, and the servant deserves to die!"

"It doesn't matter," Emperor Ming said, "You are very considerate."

Chang Shun heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time was surprised that the emperor was really tolerant towards Hua Yingchu, if it were someone else, the emperor would definitely vent his anger when he was furious, and he would be found wrong if he was right.

There was also a strange look in the Queen's eyes, she looked at Yingchu, and said softly: "Indeed, if the Junjun is frozen, who will take care of the Empress Dowager?"

A soft sedan chair was carried to the steps of the Imperial Study Room, Yingchu bowed and took his leave, and returned to Xihe Palace in a soft sedan chair.

The Empress Dowager had just taken the medicine and was resting on the bed, when she heard Yingchu's voice coming back, she immediately opened her eyes.

Eunuch Hu put two soft pillows behind her, and the Empress Dowager leaned on the head of the bed and asked Yingchu: "Why did the emperor invite you?"

Yingchu replied: "Master Tang was seriously injured, the emperor asked his concubine to look after the injury."

"Why was Tang Zhongchen injured?" The Empress Dowager asked immediately, "Did something serious happen to the capital last night?"

Yingchu looked at Eunuch Hu.

"It's all because of the nonsense of the miscellaneous family," Eunuch Hu said regretfully, "The miscellaneous family just heard a few rumors from others and told the Empress Dowager as a joke, but the Empress Dowager took it seriously."

Yingchu smiled and said: "Empress Dowager, Eunuch Hu also said it was a joke, there is no such thing, everything in the capital is fine."

"You don't have to hide Aijia," the Empress Dowager said seriously, "Aijia must tell the truth!"

Yingchu restrained her smile, hesitated for a moment, and said the matter again under the urging of the empress dowager again.

The Empress Dowager immediately closed her eyes and leaned back.

Yingchu hurriedly pinched her heart, poured a drop of spiritual spring into it.The Empress Dowager took a breath for a while, and finally regained her strength.

"The empress dowager's health is important," Yingchu said with sincere concern in his eyes, "the emperor will handle this matter, so don't bother the empress dowager about it."

"The Ai family knew that there would be such a day," the Empress Dowager's face was heavy, but her mood had calmed down, she whispered to herself, "The Ai family knew that the two brothers would turn against each other sooner or later."

Yingchu reassured: "Maybe it's not that serious, the Empress Dowager is too worried."

"The Ai family is tired, you go down." The Empress Dowager said.

Yingchu and Eunuch Hu helped her lie down together, tucked in the quilt, added some charcoal to the stove, and left the bedroom.

Hu Gonggong said: "Your Majesty, the Zajia didn't do it on purpose, it was just a slip of the tongue, and the Zajia made it up in time, but the Empress Dowager didn't believe it."

Yingchu glanced at him indifferently, Eunuch Hu is an old man in the palace, he is cautious, and there will never be any occasional leaks.

"Forget it," Yingchu wasn't going to argue with him, "just be more careful in the future."

Eunuch Hu nodded: "The miscellaneous family will definitely not commit another crime in the future!"

After a while, Eunuch Hu said cautiously: "Actually, it is good for the empress dowager to know. No matter how angry the emperor is with the empress dowager, it is not easy to depose him, otherwise the whole world will say that the emperor is not filial. If the empress dowager makes an order, it will be a matter of course. "

Yingchu didn't speak.Why didn't she know, it's just that after the Empress Dowager was fainted by the Queen Mother last time, her physical condition became worse.In all fairness, the Empress Dowager has always treated her kindly. It is enough for her to take advantage of it once. She does not want to deprive the Empress Dowager of her limited lifespan, nor does she want to see her two grandsons fighting in the same room before the Empress Dowager dies, causing the court to be in turmoil disturbed.

Yingchu then curled his lips in a self-deprecating manner, the situation in the court became more and more tense, even if the Empress Dowager did not go out, sooner or later she would know everything.She just didn't want to be that villain herself.

"Needless to say," Yingchu said to Hu Gonggong, "Since the Empress Dowager already knows, we don't want to interfere with what she wants to do."

Seeing her resolute expression, Eunuch Hu had no choice but to agree.He thought to himself that although Hua Yingchu was powerful, but in the end she cared about love, and although she had some benevolence, such a master would be at ease following her.Thinking of this, the dissatisfaction in his heart disappeared immediately.

Half an hour later, a young eunuch guarding the Shouchun Palace came back quietly to report.

After the emperor and the empress went to the Shouchun Palace, they took the confession and questioned the empress dowager. The empress dowager denied it at first, but later, in a fit of anger, she admitted that the confession was true and that she had colluded with the emperor. The king of the county wants to support him as emperor.

The emperor immediately left in a rage, and ordered the Ouchi guards to surround the Shouchun Palace heavily. The Empress Dowager was so angry that the maid wanted to invite the imperial doctor, but the Ouchi guards refused to let her go.After the queen mother learned about it, she fainted completely.

At night, after the cleaning servants went to sleep, a thick layer of snow soon accumulated in the courtyard of Xihe Palace, reflecting the night as if it were day.

On the big bed with lacquered gold and carved phoenix, the Empress Dowager suddenly woke up from her nightmare, breathing heavily and rapidly.

"Come on! Come on!" The Empress Dowager's voice was hoarse and changed, appearing a little sharp.

The entire Xihe Palace was soon lit up. Eunuch Hu and Yingchu walked into the bedroom one after another, and saw the Empress Dowager's face was pale, and her forehead was covered with cold sweat.

Eunuch Hu hurriedly ordered someone to bring hot water, while Yingchu sat in front of the bed and took his pulse. After a while, his expression relaxed: "The Empress Dowager is just having a nightmare, and my concubine immediately ordered someone to make a bowl of soothing soup."

The Empress Dowager suddenly grabbed Yingchu's hand, and her usually kind and gentle face looked a little sinister under the candlelight.

"Empress Dowager?" Yingchu was startled.

"You don't want to hide it from the Ai family. The descendants of the Ai family have come to ask," the empress dowager said coldly, "The queen mother colluded with the king of Chenjun in an attempt to rebel! The Ai family must not allow this to happen! The Ai family will absolutely You can't watch Dayan's domestic turmoil! Otherwise, Ai's family will have no face to see their ancestors when they are under the Nine Springs!"

Yingchu guessed that the Empress Dowager must have dreamed of chaos in the world just now, that's why she lost her composure.

"No, the emperor will definitely deal with it properly, empress dowager, don't worry too much." Yingchu tried to calm her down.

The Empress Dowager couldn't listen to her at all, and said to Eunuch Hu: "Prepare the sedan chair, Ai's family is going to the Shouchun Palace!"

Eunuch Hu quietly glanced at Yingchu.

Yingchu nodded imperceptibly, since the Empress Dowager insisted on going, they could be happy to see it succeed.

Eunuch Hu walked down quickly.

Yingchu put a thick velvet buckskin jacket on the empress dowager's close-fitting jacket, wrapped it in a cotton-core cloak, and helped her into the sedan chair.She then got on a small sedan chair behind and said, "Let's go."

The eunuch lifted the sedan chair and walked in the snow for a long time before arriving at Shouchun Palace.

The Ouchi guards were strictly on duty in the snowy night. When they saw the Empress Dowager coming, they quickly saluted and asked, "The Empress Dowager came late at night. I don't know why? The emperor has ordered that no one is allowed to enter the Shouchun Palace."

"Get out of the way," said the Empress Dowager, "If the emperor pursues the matter, the Ai family will bear it all, and you will not be implicated."

Several guards looked at each other and got out of the way.

The Empress Dowager said to Yingchu: "You wait outside for Aijia."

"Yes." Yingchu replied.

The Empress Dowager took Eunuch Hu's hand and walked into the Shouchun Palace.

The snow on the ground of Shouchun Palace was several times thicker than that outside. Obviously, after the emperor came, the servants inside were too frightened to clean it.

Pushing open the door of the dormitory and walking in, the inside was almost as cold as the outside, the charcoal fire in the stove was extinguished at some point, and there was no spark to be seen.Eunuch Hu raised the lantern and called out, only then did the candles light up inside, and a nanny ran out in a panic, it was Aunt Ji, the queen mother's personal nanny.

"My servant knocked on the Empress Dowager!" Aunt Ji's joyful voice immediately turned into fear after seeing the empress dowager's cold and stern expression, and a bad premonition suddenly surged in her heart.

"What about the Queen Mother, why don't you come out to pick her up?" Eunuch Hu said fairly.

At this time, the queen mother came out neatly dressed, her expression was not good, but her expression was still as arrogant as usual, she smiled and said: "The empress dowager ran to Ai's house in the middle of the night, maybe she is the same as the emperor, come here Ask Aijia if he wants to rebel?!"

The Empress Dowager was weak, so she went to the chair and sat down, and said to the Empress Dowager, "Sit down and talk."

The queen mother snorted coldly, and sat opposite the queen mother.

"You two guard the door and no one is allowed to come in." The Empress Dowager said to Eunuch Hu and Aunt Ji again.

The two stepped back and closed the palace door.

The queen mother was a little confused: "What do you want to say?"

The Empress Dowager coughed a few times. Even though she was wearing thick clothes, she still felt cold. She probably caught a cold after she came out.Her body is really failing, and she won't live for a few days.

"The Ai family told you before," the empress dowager stopped coughing, her voice was a little hoarse, "There are no two kings in the country, and the whole world belongs to the emperor. The emperor ruled the world together, let alone persecute the emperor again and again for him."

The queen mother has never thought she was wrong until now, and said coldly: "Aijia never said that the world is not the emperor's, but Cang Ze is the emperor's younger brother. He can give the power to those outsiders in the court. Can't let go of Cangze? If their brothers can be of one heart, why should I, Dayan, be unhappy?"

"It's just your wishful thinking," the empress dowager said sternly, "the more you give to Prince Chen and protect him, the more you will fuel his ambition, the more you will hurt the mother-child relationship with the emperor, and the more you will threaten the emperor. The throne. If you hadn’t been meddling between their brothers, they might not have been able to coexist peacefully, and now you have to blame for this situation!”

"Absurd!" The queen mother said angrily, "The Ai family is for their own good, and it is the emperor who is wrong! He listened to the slander of the treacherous villain and framed the king of Chenjun for plotting rebellion, even the Ai family doubted it! How could the king of Chen county rebel? ? What the emperor did was really not what Mingjun did, which disappointed the Aijia!"

The Empress Dowager saw that she didn't know how to repent at all, so she knew that it was useless to say more.Up to now, the queen mother's attitude is still so tough, no wonder she will leave the emperor angrily.

The empress dowager was still aggrieved: "The empress dowager judged the truth later, will the king of Chenjun rebel? Will the Ai family plot to take his throne? It's really unreasonable!"

(End of this chapter)