The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 343 Father and Son (Eighth)

The Emperor Thunder was furious!

He hated that poisonous woman very much, but all the people around him were bought by the other party one by one. He didn't talk about the little genius doctor and Xiao Liulang, after all, they knew her first.

But why didn't she even let his son go?

Children are easy to fool, especially this foodie little fat guy, if you give him a sweet date, he can run away.

The emperor didn't think at all how difficult it was to bribe him, and he didn't think that he had really discovered the goodness of the Empress Dowager Zhuang, but it was just that the Empress Dowager Zhuang was trying to snatch him away from him again.

Qin Chuyu shivered in Dowager Jing's arms.

Concubine Jing stroked his face tenderly, and said, "Don't be afraid, go to Grandma Jing."

"Hmm!" Qin Chuyu hid tightly in Concubine Jing's arms and could not come out.

The emperor couldn't really drag Qin Chuyu out of Concubine Jing's arms to teach him a lesson, so he suppressed his anger: "Get up the sedan chair and go back to the palace!"

When the group returned to Huaqing Palace, Qin Chuyu was worried that his father would beat him up, so he rushed into Concubine Jing's room.

The emperor looked at his son who was running faster than a rabbit, and the corner of his mouth twitched fiercely.

Concubine Jing said dumbfoundedly: "Xiao Qi is still young, don't be too harsh on him, it will make him sad."

The emperor snorted coldly: "It's better to make him sad than to lose his life!"

Concubine Jing sighed and shook her head: "Your Majesty, have you misunderstood the Queen Mother too deeply? Renshou Palace is not a place for tigers and wolves, and the Queen Mother is Xiao Qi's imperial grandmother. How could she be unfavorable to Xiao Qi?"

The emperor stood on the porch, looking at the quiet courtyard, his gaze was cold: "I am afraid that the concubine has forgotten what happened to Xiao Heng back then. How innocent is the four-year-old Xiao Heng? Didn't he still suffer from her murderous hands!"

Concubine Jing said, "Maybe it's a misunderstanding."

The emperor looked at Concubine Jing and said indifferently: "Where are there so many misunderstandings? The concubine mother is just too kind-hearted and always repays grievances with kindness, but some people will not be grateful for this, but will intensify it."

Concubine Jing said: "Then you don't blame Xiao Qi, he is so young and doesn't understand anything."

The emperor frowned and said: "He is the prince, he was born in such a vortex, how can he save his life if he doesn't understand?"

Concubine Jing said earnestly: "You have to take your time, don't be impatient. When you were Xiao Qi's age, weren't you as innocent as Xiao Qi?"

Thinking of the past, a trace of guilt appeared in the emperor's eyes: "It is because I was too late to understand and failed to protect my concubine and Ning'an properly that I made you suffer so much in the palace."

Concubine Jing shook her head: "Don't say that,

We didn't suffer much, the Queen Mother... still gave us mother and son a lot of blessings in the past. "

When the Empress Dowager Zhuang was mentioned, the emperor was disgusted and furious: "Her is not called blessing, at best it is a deliberate plan."

Concubine Jing waved her hand: "Okay, okay, don't argue about this, you go to work first, Xiaoqi will teach you slowly, don't rush for a while."

Speaking of this, the emperor couldn't hold on to Qin Chuyu any longer: "Xiaoqi will ask the concubine mother."

Concubine Jing smiled gently: "I know, I will send someone to send him back to the queen in a while."

There was a backlog of memorials in the imperial study, the emperor went to review the memorials, and Concubine Jing went back to the house.

Qin Chuyu hid behind Duobao Pavilion, stretched out his round head and carefully looked at it.

Concubine Jing walked over with a smile, sat down on the chair, and said to him: "Come here, your father is gone, don't be afraid."

Qin Chuyu asked suspiciously: "Is the father really gone?"

Concubine Jing smiled and said: "Let's go, Grandma Jing is a monk, so I won't lie to you."

"Oh." Qin Chuyu remembered that Xiao Jingkong once said that monks don't tell lies, which means that monks don't lie. Qin Chuyu felt relieved, walked to the chair next to Concubine Jing and sat down.

He breathed a sigh of relief: "Hey, I was scared to death."

Concubine Jing took out the handkerchief, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "Your father won't eat you."

Qin Chuyu pouted: "But he will beat me up!"

Concubine Jing paused for wiping his sweat: "Does your father beat you often?"

"Hmm..." Qin Chuyu thought about it carefully, "I've been beaten a few times, but it's not too often."

Concubine Jing finished wiping his forehead, and then wiped his cheek: "Your father is strict with you because he thinks highly of you. You are his legitimate son, and you are different from other princes."

"I know." Qin Chuyu knew from an early age that he and the elder brother of the crown prince were descended from the empress's lineage, and were of nobler birth than the other princes. Otherwise, how could he be domineering in the palace?

As the saying goes, seven or eighty-nine, hate a dead dog. Qin Chuyu is at the age that even a dog hates. He is rebellious and unreasonable. Recently, even the prince doesn't want to see him.

Concubine Jing said softly: "Your father is doing it for your own good."

Qin Chuyu groaned, "Hmph, he wouldn't make up lies to lie to me for my own good!"

Concubine Jing seemed to be amused by his small appearance: "What kind of lies did your father make up?"

Qin Chuyu said angrily: "He said that the emperor's grandmother is not a good person!"

The conscience of heaven and earth, the emperor never said such words to him personally, he just didn't allow Qin Chuyu to go to Renshou Palace, and the conclusion that Queen Mother Zhuang is not a good person was concluded by Qin Chuyu's observation.

Don't look at children as innocent, but they are extremely sensitive in certain things.

For example, he could feel that every time the emperor looked at the Empress Dowager Zhuang, it was as if he was looking at a bad person, and the emperor forbade him to get close to the Empress Dowager, which proved this in a certain way.

In addition, Empress Xiao and the people around her kept the Empress Dowager Zhuang secret.

It's not surprising that he summed it up like this.

Concubine Jing patted his head: "What does Xiaoqi think? Is the imperial grandmother a good person?"

"Hmm..." Qin Chuyu thought about it for a moment, and said rigorously, "Anyway, she's not bad! I was eating in the imperial grandmother's palace today, and I spilled a big bowl of soup on her, and she didn't punish me , and didn't scold me."

Concubine Jing looked at him tenderly and kindly and said: "Xiao Qi is a prince, no one will scold Xiao Qi."

Qin Chuyu snorted: "She even scolded her father! I heard it!"

"Really?" Dowager Jing smiled, lowered her eyes, and put down her veil.

...

The emperor went to the imperial study to review the memorial, and halfway through the review he put the memorial on the table lightly.

Eunuch Wei asked with concern: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you? Is the room too stuffy?"

"No." The emperor pinched his sore brows.

Eunuch Wei said: "You are tired, read these papers tomorrow, and tomorrow is not an early morning."

Zhaoguo does not go to court every day, and there are a few days of rest every month.

The emperor took a sip of tea and said lightly, "I'm not sleepy."

"Then what is His Majesty bothered about?" Eunuch Wei asked.

The emperor didn't answer, but said: "Where is Mr. He? You go and call him."

"Yes."

Eunuch Wei brought Eunuch He to the imperial study room during the night.

Eunuch He bowed to the emperor: "Your Majesty, my servant."

"How is the matter you were asked to investigate?" the emperor asked in a deep voice.

He was talking about the attack on Concubine Jing in the Imperial Garden.

Eunuch He said: "I don't have much clue yet, I only found out that the assassin must have infiltrated the palace from the vicinity of the Leng Palace, where the defenses are relatively weak. In addition, the slave speculates that the assassin should have an accomplice cooperating with him internally and externally. Dragon Shadow Guard, he will go and attack Concubine Jing again."

It's a pity that the Dragon Shadow Guards are dead soldiers, they only obey orders and never communicate with others, and they can't ask any information from the Dragon Shadow Guards at all.

Therefore, Eunuch He didn't bother to ask Long Yingwei for questioning.

The emperor also knew the special features of Longyingwei, so he didn't blame Eunuch He for his ineffectiveness.

It's just that he was curious, how did Long Yingwei be lured away?

The Dragon Shadow Guards are different from ordinary dark guards, they will not chase after them and abandon their master just because of the slightest disturbance.

Unless Concubine Jing gave them the order to chase after them, but Concubine Jing didn't.

The emperor couldn't figure out who would have the ability to lure the Dragon Shadow Guard away?

Moreover, Eunuch He searched all over the palace and did not find anyone's body or a trace of blood. In other words, after the Dragon Shadow Guard was led away, he either didn't see that person, or he saw him but didn't fight him.

It's impossible not to see it, and Long Yingwei will not fail to catch up with whomever he wants to chase.

But why didn't they fight?

The Dragon Shadow Guards would not easily attack those who are powerless. This was probably an order from the late emperor to prevent them from killing civilians by mistake.

Doesn't that person know martial arts?

But since he doesn't know martial arts, how can he lure the Dragon Shadow Guard away?

The emperor was thinking too hard.

Just when the emperor was struggling with this matter, a young eunuch from Kunning Palace suddenly came to report in a hurry: "Your Majesty! It's not good! Something happened to His Royal Highness!"

The emperor hurriedly left his official duties, got up and went to the Kunning Palace of Empress Xiao.

Empress Xiao sent someone to send news to the emperor, and at the same time sent someone to call the imperial doctor, who arrived at Kunning Palace at the same time as the emperor. The imperial doctor didn't care to salute the emperor, and quickly walked into Qin Chuyu's bedroom with a medicine box.

On the wide and soft bed, Qin Chuyu clutched his little fat belly, rolling all over the bed in pain: "Mother—I hurt—I hurt to death—"

Empress Xiao felt distressed, and sat on the edge of the bed trying to hold her youngest son into her arms.

But Qin Chuyu was in too much pain, he couldn't stay in Empress Xiao's arms at all.

The imperial doctor hurried over, put down the medicine box, knelt by the bed and began to feel Qin Chuyu's pulse.

Eunuch Su and another powerful nun held him down to prevent him from moving around.

Empress Xiao was so anxious that her eyes were red: "Doctor! What's wrong with the Seventh Prince!"

The imperial doctor bowed and said: "The minister will not inform the empress until the examination is completed."

"Then check it out!" Queen Xiao said.

Although the imperial doctor is already investigating, he still respectfully replied: "Yes! Yes!"

The emperor walked in with a solemn expression: "What happened to Xiaoqi?"

"Your Majesty!" Empress Xiao threw herself into his arms with tears in her eyes, and the hot tears hit the back of his hand.

Empress Xiao, who had always carried her status as a queen and never lost her manners in front of the imperial court, burst into tears.

It was at this moment that the emperor felt that his queen was also an ordinary woman, an ordinary mother.

The emperor's heart softened, and he patted her on the shoulder to comfort her: "Don't cry, tell me, what's wrong?"

Empress Xiao choked with sobs and said: "I don't know what's wrong, Xiaoqi was fine when he came back, but suddenly he clutched his stomach and complained of pain..."

The emperor asked, "What did he have for dinner today?"

"He, he ate in Renshou Palace..." Empress Xiao wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and said seriously, "Xiao Dezi!"

Xiao Dezi dragged his injured body into the house.

Obviously, Eunuch Su punished him just now.

He knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor and empress Xiao: "Slave, I kowtow to your majesty and the queen."

Empress Xiao said coldly: "I ask you, did the Seventh Prince eat anything strange in Renshou Palace?"

"Strange things?" Xiao Dezi scratched his head, "It seems to be quite strange, those breads and buns are something I have never seen before, like pigs, like fish..."

The emperor understood, it was Xiao Jingkong's special snack that he usually ate in Bishui Hutong: "Apart from these, are there other things?"

"And some dishes." Xiao Dezi reported the dishes on the table.

No problem, they are all dishes that the emperor and empress Xiao would also eat on weekdays.

Empress Xiao asked: "Then... did they feed the Seventh Prince alone?"

No wonder Empress Xiao was so skeptical, it was because Xiao Heng's tragedy was vivid in her memory, she didn't want her son to be the second person to be murdered by the Empress Dowager!

"No." Xiao Dezi shook his head.

Empress Xiao frowned and said, "Would you feed it alone but you didn't see it? Have you been guarding the seventh prince all this time? You never leave him?"

"This..." Xiao Dezi bowed his head guiltyly, and said in fear, "Slave, slave went to the latrine."

"You!" Empress Xiao was so angry that she almost slapped him in the face!

The imperial doctor on the other side finished his diagnosis, and he said to the emperor and Empress Xiao: "Report to Your Majesty, to the Empress, Your Highness Qi eats too much, and his stomach is ruined, accompanied by flatulence and abdominal cramps. Your Highness take some pills for digestion, His Highness the Seventh can’t take it like this again, it’s very harmful to your body.”

Empress Xiao said angrily: "Your Majesty, listen! Renshou Palace really has no good intentions!"

The emperor already knew that Qin Chuyu was taken to Renshou Palace by Xiao Jingkong, and Gu Jiao was also there.

The emperor didn't think that Gu Jiao would let Qin Chuyu eat without restraint.

The imperial doctor gave Qin Chuyu pills for digestion. After Qin Chuyu farted a few times, the pain was finally relieved.

He had heard all the arguments just now, both the royal father and the queen mother thought it was the emperor's grandmother who fed him like this.

Actually not.

But if he told the truth, he had to be punished.

He was at war with himself.

The former Qin Chuyu would never confess. He was most afraid of being punished by his father. In order to avoid punishment, he could be a child who lied against his conscience!

But this time, he chose to confess.

He gritted his teeth, shook his heart, and said, "I didn't eat much in Renshou Palace... I ate again after leaving Renshou Palace... Gu Jiao told me not to eat anymore in Renshou Palace... I... I couldn't hold back..."

"What did you eat?" asked the emperor.

Qin Chuyu didn't dare to look into his father's eyes, and lowered his head: "I ate a few pieces of sweet-scented osmanthus cake... and drank a bowl of iced sour plum juice..."

Empress Xiao's eyes sharpened: "Who brought these meals to His Highness the Seventh Prince? I have warned you earlier, you are not allowed to secretly feed His Highness the Seventh Prince! I want to see who dares to disobey my orders!"

Eunuch Su whispered: "Madam, Kunning Palace didn't make chilled plum juice today."

Eunuch Wei cleared his throat and said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, we did it at Huaqing Palace."