The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 348 The Truth (Part 2)

At the same time, Concubine Zhuang also asked in front of the Empress Dowager Zhuang of Renshou Palace.

She beamed and said: "Auntie, did you do this? I knew that Auntie had the ability to deceive His Majesty! Auntie's trick is called winning by surprise! Concubine Jing thinks that moving back to the palace will give Auntie Adding trouble, but unexpectedly, my aunt is more skilled, and with a little trickery, I settled the feud with His Majesty! Why didn't my aunt do this earlier?"

Mrs. Zhuang looked at her expressionlessly from behind.

Concubine Zhuang's heart skipped a beat when she was seen, she shrank her neck, and said in a dazed voice, "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong? It's rumored in the palace that the murderer who poisoned Xiao Heng has been found, it's that Zhang Xiu. How did Auntie think of letting Zhang Xiu take the blame? Zhang Xiu belongs to His Majesty, so Auntie can't order her, so the suspicion is completely cleared!"

"Have you finished?" The Empress Dowager Zhuang said indifferently, "The Ai family needs to read the scriptures."

Concubine Zhuang Gui curled her lips, bowed and took her leave.

Zhang Xiu's poisoning of Xiao Heng spread like wildfire, and soon Liugong Quan knew the truth about Xiao Heng's murder. The emperor had misunderstood the Empress Dowager Zhuang for many years.

Admittedly, some people think that this is the emperor's blindfold. On the surface, he expresses guilt and filial piety to Queen Mother Zhuang through Zhang Xiu's incident. In fact, he is paralyzing Queen Mother Zhuang and getting close to Queen Mother Zhuang in order to gain Queen Mother Zhuang's trust, so that he can kill Queen Mother Zhuang by surprise in the future.

Empress Xiao sat in Huaqing Palace for a while and then went back to Kunning Palace to take care of Qin Chuyu.

The emperor looked at Concubine Jing: "How is the injury of Concubine Mother?"

Concubine Jing smiled, and said softly, "It's nothing serious."

The emperor's expression did not relax in the slightest, and he said seriously: "The imperial doctor said that the concubine mother still needs to be taken care of carefully, and the medicine should not be neglected every day. Madam Cai, you must take good care of the concubine mother."

"Yes." Madam Cai respectfully responded.

The emperor hummed, and said to Concubine Jing: "The son is going to the imperial study first. If the concubine feels bored in Huaqing Palace, she will take a sedan chair and go to the imperial garden. The imperial doctor said that it is not good to be bored in the room all the time." Rehabilitation."

"Your Majesty don't need to miss me. With His Majesty's Dragon Qi blessing, I am in good health, but Your Majesty..." Concubine Jing said, her eyes fell between his slightly haggard brows, "Your Majesty looked tired, but he was reviewing the memorials overnight again. ?”

The emperor smiled nonchalantly and said, "Recently, there have been heavy rains in many areas, and the disasters have been serious, so there are inevitably more books."

Concubine Jing took his hand, and said earnestly: "Then you have to take care of the dragon's body."

The emperor patted the back of Dowager Jing's hand and said with a smile, "My son will pay attention."

Concubine Jing's expression turned pale, she thought of something, and asked again: "Is the soothing incense that Nanny Cai gave you useful?"

"some.

" said the emperor.

"Is it still working?" Princess Jing asked.

The emperor said with a smile: "The spices prepared by the mother and concubine are naturally easy to use."

The emperor comforted Concubine Jing a few more words, then got up and went to the imperial study.

He didn't come to eat with Concubine Jing at noon, he ate in the imperial study.

Eunuch Wei went to the imperial dining room and asked the cook to cook some delicious dishes, not many in style.

The emperor used to talk about ostentation when eating, but since he lived in Bishui Hutong, his three meals a day have been simplified a lot.

Eunuch Wei came out of the imperial study, went back to Huaqing Palace, and took some notebooks that were left in the small study last night.

When he came out of the small study, he ran into Concubine Jing and Nanny Cai who were walking towards him.

"Ms. Taifei." Eunuch Wei bowed while hugging the booklet.

Madam Cai bowed slightly to him.

He also owed him.

In terms of rank, he is above Nanny Cai, but the imperial palace has never been a place purely for rank, the emperor respects Concubine Jing, if she attains the Tao alone, even chickens and dogs will rise to the sky.

Concubine Jing looked at him gently: "Eunuch Wei, how many years have you been serving His Majesty?"

Eunuch Wei didn't think for too long, and replied almost quickly: "The servant has been with your majesty since he was fourteen years old, and it has been thirty years."

Concubine Jing nodded: "Do you still remember who chose you to be next to His Majesty?"

Eunuch Wei was slightly taken aback, not understanding why Concubine Jing suddenly asked this, and he said truthfully, "It's the Concubine."

Concubine Jing looked at him fixedly: "Then can I trust you?"

She used Ben Gong.

Eunuch Wei looked serious, hugged the bag tightly with one hand, freed the other hand to lift his hem and knelt down: "What do you want to order from the empress dowager, this servant will never refuse!"

Concubine Jing raised her hand to help him: "Get up and talk, what are you dying for? You are an old man beside His Majesty, and His Majesty can't leave you. I'm just too worried about Your Majesty. I don't trust what other people say, so I have to ask you .”

Eunuch Wei broke into a cold sweat, not daring to let Concubine Jing help his lowly body, he quickly stood up, lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, what do you want to ask, but it's okay to say."

Concubine Jing asked: "How is Your Majesty's body?"

Eunuch Wei thought that Concubine Jing would ask His Majesty if the reconciliation between Queen Dowager Zhuang and His Majesty was true, but unexpectedly she cared about His Majesty's dragon body.

Eunuch Wei felt ashamed that he had misunderstood Concubine Jing, he said: "As for the concubine, Your Majesty has been having trouble sleeping and eating recently."

Concubine Jing's eyes moved: "But you are in a trance and have nightmares at night?"

"Exactly..." Eunuch Wei was taken aback for a moment, "Huh? How does the empress dowager know?"

Concubine Jing sighed: "I guessed it all. I talked to him just now, and he was a little out of spirits. I asked him if he was reviewing the memorials overnight. He said that there were too many manuscripts. I guess he couldn't sleep. It was the same when I was a child. This child, when he is stressed, he will have nightmares, and then I will hold him to sleep... I thought that after so many years, when he grows up, he will never be the same as when he was a child."

Eunuch Wei said: "Your majesty is worried about His Majesty."

Concubine Jing smiled bitterly: "He is my son, and I pulled him to the ground. How can I not worry about him? By the way, is the tranquilizing incense I gave to His Majesty useful? A prescription requested by an eminent monk can cure His Majesty's insomnia and dreaminess."

Eunuch Wei: "Use it."

Concubine Jing: "Is it really useful?"

Mr. Wei smiled sheepishly: "It is indeed used. If the empress dowager does not believe it, I can find the incense ashes for you."

Concubine Jing smiled: "No need, I believe in you. Except for me in the entire Huaqing Palace, you are the only one who is most sincere to His Majesty."

Eunuch Wei bowed his head: "The servant is terrified."

Concubine Jing handed him a box: "This is a new tranquilizing incense. The effect is better than the last one. You can use it for your majesty. I hope your majesty will no longer be troubled by nightmares. If it works, you Come to me again, I have many more.”

Eunuch Wei took the box and said, "Yes."

Concubine Jing said: "Then I will go first."

Eunuch Wei saluted: "Send off to the empress dowager."

After Concubine Jing left, Eunuch Wei took the memorial and An Shenxiang to the Imperial Study Room, and told the emperor about meeting Concubine Jing.

The emperor laughed: "I don't remember what happened when I was a child, and neither do you. Who told you to talk about my situation and tell my concubine? It made her worry."

Eunuch Wei explained: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager can see that you are feeling unwell, won't it make her think more wildly if you hide it?"

The emperor shook his head: "That's all."

Eunuch Wei smiled: "Then this Anshenxiang..."

The emperor said: "Since it's the wish of the concubine, let's leave it alone and use it to see at night."

At night, Eunuch Wei gave the emperor the newly sent Anshenxiang by Concubine Jing. This kind of incense tasted the same as the previous Anshenxiang, only stronger.

The emperor really fell asleep very quickly.

Eunuch Wei thought that if he could really sleep well this time, he could go to rest.

But what no one expected was that the emperor had another nightmare not long after he fell asleep.

This time he didn't dream that he was lying on the bed so stiff that he couldn't move and had to be slaughtered. He dreamed that he stumbled and fell off the cliff, and grabbed a vine on the edge of the cliff at the critical moment.

The bottom of his feet is an abyss, and if the vines are broken, he will fall to pieces.

He desperately shouted: "Escort—escort—"

Finally, someone came over.

It's Concubine Jing!

Concubine Jing lay down.

He was so moved that he was about to cry, the concubine mother really loved him the most in the world.

However, Concubine Jing didn't want to pull him up, but took out a dagger and cut off his vine.

"what--"

The weightlessness of falling into the abyss made the emperor suddenly wake up from his sleep. He sat up and gasped for breath!

When Eunuch Wei heard the movement, he didn't even bother to put on his shoes. He walked over with an oil lamp and asked, "Your Majesty!"

Seeing the emperor's pale face and covered in cold sweat, he couldn't help being startled: "Your Majesty is having nightmares again?"

"Zhen...Zhen..." The emperor covered his heart, his body trembling uncontrollably.

The dream just now was too terrifying, the feeling of falling into the abyss was worse than stabbing him ten thousand times with a knife.

It's just a nightmare, he is the Ninth Five-Year Master, and he is not a cowardly person, how can he be scared like this?

He despises himself.

"Your Majesty, drink some tea." After putting down the oil lamp, Eunuch Wei poured out a cup of herbal tea to calm down.

The emperor gulped and drank, but he didn't settle down much.

"I can't sleep, I'll go and watch the book for a while."

Eunuch Wei couldn't persuade him, so he had to carry Zhezi from the imperial study.

But the emperor couldn't calm down at all, the fear in his nightmare lingered in his body like tarsal maggots.

Distraught, the emperor put down the folder: "I'm going out for a walk, don't let them follow."

"Yes."

Eunuch Wei went out of Huaqing Palace with the emperor, holding a lantern.

The emperor walked aimlessly.

Unknowingly came to Kunning Palace.

Eunuch Wei asked softly, "Your Majesty, do you want to go to the Queen's place? This servant will let you know."

The emperor looked at the closed palace gate and said calmly: "No need, it's late at night, don't wake up the queen mother."

Eunuch Wei was taken aback.

Empress?

Isn't Queen Xiao living here?

Empress Dowager Zhuang moved to Renshou Palace long after the late emperor passed away.

Eunuch Wei looked at the emperor in bewilderment, and the emperor suddenly came back to his senses and gave him a suspicious look: "What did I just say?"

Eunuch Wei was stunned for a moment, and said: "Ah, no, it's nothing. Your Majesty said that it's late at night, so you won't wake the queen up."

Maybe I heard it wrong.

Your Majesty is talking about the Queen, not the Queen Mother.

"Empress..." The emperor's expression was in a daze for a moment, and he suddenly frowned, "Why did I come here? You didn't remind me? In the middle of the night, the harem was alarmed and there was a flurry of chaos!"

"...Uh, yes, it's the servant's fault."

Eunuch Wei was very wronged.

From the time you left Huaqing Palace, you rushed here as if you had identified it. Who can stop you?

"Go back." The emperor said angrily.

The emperor didn't sleep much that night, he changed his clothes on time after Yinshi and went to court.

He was so depressed that he almost fell asleep on the dragon chair.

Empress Dowager Zhuang said in a mighty and domineering manner: "If there is something to do, let's play, and if there is nothing to do, we will retreat!"

This irritable tone meant that whoever dares to make troubles is waiting to be messed with.

All civil and military officials said that there was nothing to do.

Eunuch Wei announced at the top of his voice, "Back to court—"

After exiting the Golden Luan Hall, the Empress Dowager Zhuang sat on her own phoenix. She glanced at the emperor who was doing a full set of plays and watched her leave beside Feng zhuo, and said sarcastically: "Don't let the murderer fail to catch you. Already!"

The emperor said coldly: "Don't worry about my mother, I am very well!"

"Someone is coming!" Eunuch Wei reminded.

The emperor and the Empress Dowager Zhuang opened for business in a second, raising their smiling faces!

After returning to Huaqing Palace, Eunuch Wei was invited by Nanny Cai to the Qiuhua Pavilion of Concubine Jing.

Concubine Jing was copying Buddhist scriptures. Seeing him coming, she smiled and asked warmly, "Did Your Majesty sleep well last night? Did you not have any more nightmares?"

Eunuch Wei looked hesitant.

Concubine Jing's smile gradually disappeared: "What's the matter? Is Your Majesty still unable to sleep?"

"Sleep is sleep, that is..." Eunuch Wei sighed helplessly, "I had a nightmare again, and I was quite frightened."

The writing brush in Concubine Jing's hand fell to the table with a click, and the tip of the pen rolled around and rolled from the table to the floor, thus staining the scriptures that had just been copied.

"How could this be?" she murmured in disbelief.

Eunuch Wei gave Empress Dowager a strange look.

Nanny Cai hurriedly knelt down, picked up the brush and put it away, wiped the ink on the floor with a handkerchief, and said: "The parents of the world love you, Your Majesty's dragon body is against the law, and the empress is worried that your majesty will be unavoidable. I understand how the empress feels. But you have to take good care of yourself, ma'am! The imperial doctor said that your injury is still unhealed, so you can't worry about it!"

Eunuch Wei looked at Concubine Jing.

Concubine Jing was full of disbelief, she squeezed the Buddhist scriptures on the table tightly, and she kneaded them into a ball with too much force.

Eunuch Wei was shocked.

Cai Momo grabbed Dowager Jing's wrist, looked at her steadily, and said, "Your Majesty, you must hold on! Your Majesty has already worked hard on state affairs, so you can't be so anxious!"

Are you really worried about His Majesty? Eunuch Wei sighed secretly, and said, "I'll ask the imperial doctor to come over to the empress too."

Madam Cai said gratefully, "Thank you, Eunuch Wei!"

Eunuch Wei said politely, "It's what you should do."

Cai Nanny smiled and said, "I'll take Eunuch Wei out."

Eunuch Wei declined: "No need, Nanny Cai should take care of the concubine."

Nanny Cai insisted on sending people to the door, and watched Eunuch Wei disappear at the end of the corridor with a smile, then she smiled and went back to Qiuhua Pavilion.

She looked at Concubine Jing worriedly: "Your Majesty!"

Concubine Jing closed her wide sleeves calmly: "Okay, I'm fine."

The imperial doctor went to the imperial study to feel the emperor's pulse, saying that the emperor was overwhelmed with worry, overworked, and irritated.

The emperor said disdainfully: "It's this prescription again, how many times have I tried it, and which one is effective?"

Eunuch Wei rolled his eyes: "Why don't you... go to the little genius doctor?"

The emperor snorted, "Didn't you hear her say that she never came to Huaqing Palace for medical treatment?"

Eunuch Wei laughed and said, "If she doesn't come to us, we can go to her! You can't do anything if you go on like this, you are frightened by the concubine!"

The emperor frowned, and was finally persuaded. He and Eunuch Wei changed into their outing clothes, and took a carriage to Miaoshoutang.

In the end, she was told that Gu Jiao was not there.

Doctor Song had met Eunuch Wei and knew that his master was Qin Chuyu's father, an official of the imperial court. He cupped his hands and said politely, "Miss Gu has gone to see a doctor."

"How long will you be back?" Eunuch Wei asked.

Dr. Song said: "She didn't say, but I reckon she won't go back to the clinic today, she has to pick up Qing Kong from school later, don't you know where her home is? Why don't you just go home and look for her!"

The master and servant then went to Bishui Hutong.

Before Gu Jiao came back, Yao invited them into the house.

Today, Grandma Zhou's two daughters-in-law, Aunt Liu and her younger sister came here to ask Mrs. Yao about needlework. A house full of women occupied the main room, and Aunt Liu's eyes were always on the emperor.

The emperor's scalp is numb!

Yao Shi pursed her lips and smiled, and invited the emperor to her aunt's room: "Your Majesty... the master may sit in the room for a while, Jiaojiao will be back soon."

"Thank you Madam Gu." The emperor thanked politely.

Aunt Liu ran over sneakily.

The emperor was so frightened that he inserted the bolt on the door!

The emperor sat in a small and cramped room, the doors and windows were closed, the light was a little dim, but the more so, the more his other senses were magnified.

He smelled a faint warm breath.

There used to be in distant memory.

When Gu Jiao came back from picking up Xiaoqingkong, she heard Eunuch Wei talking about the emperor's insomnia at night. She went to knock on the door of her aunt's room, but there was no sound after knocking for a long time.

Eunuch Wei was terrified: "Your Majesty must have had an accident!"

Gu Jiao pulled out the dagger and pried open the door bolt.

Eunuch Wei hurriedly opened the door and rushed in: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty..."

He was dumbfounded.

The emperor who had agreed to sleep was lying sprawled on the bed at the moment, drooling and snoring, snoring so much that it was snoring or fart!