The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 353 Heart-warming (Part 2)

If he didn't leave, he was afraid that he would be unable to help but chop off Gu Chao's head!

Although he damn it!

"Empress—Empress Dowager—"

Madam Cai exclaimed miserably.

The emperor turned around abruptly, and saw Concubine Jing's pale face, crumbling like a withered autumn leaf.

With tears in her eyes, she gave the emperor one last look, closed her eyes and passed out.

The emperor took a step forward to catch her, hugged her almost skinny body, and shouted anxiously: "Mother concubine! Mother concubine! The imperial doctor—"

Concubine Jing woke up in the middle of the night.

The emperor was reviewing the memorial in the study, and the old Hou Ye knelt opposite him.

The emperor hadn't figured out what to do with him yet, and it would be too embarrassing for him to kneel in the yard, a man of the royal family!

A young eunuch came to the door of the study, Eunuch Wei walked over, heard him say a few words, nodded and returned to the study, whispering: "Your Majesty, the princess is awake."

The emperor did not have the urge to rush over to visit her in the past, maybe it was her abandoning him that hurt his heart.

He never thought that he was not as good as a wild man outside in her heart.

The emperor gave the old master a cold look, and he didn't know how much effort he had to fail to issue an imperial edict to punish the nine clans.

Eunuch Wei sighed, and said, "Your Majesty, would you like to go over and have a look? The imperial doctor said that the concubine's condition is not very good, and she just vomited a mouthful of blood."

Hearing Concubine Jing vomit blood, the emperor's heart twitched.

After all, it's the mother-child relationship for so many years, it doesn't mean that it can be broken just by breaking it.

He got up and went to Concubine Jing's bedroom.

Concubine Jing had just taken the medicine, her face was paler than before.

The emperor suddenly remembered that she was either sick or injured during the period when she returned to the palace. It seemed that she did not have a stable day. She wanted to escape because she was too tired, too bitter, too scared, right?

"You step back." Dowager Jing said to Nanny Cai and the others.

"Yes." Nanny Cai led the palace staff back out.

The emperor stood neither far nor close to the bed, and did not walk over immediately.

Concubine Jing propped herself up on her elbows, coughed twice, her weakness at the moment is indeed not faking, the injury from being put in a sack earlier has not healed, and her tendons and veins have been broken twice just now. Root vomited blood.

She asked, "Is there anything you want to ask me, Your Majesty?"

The emperor clenched his fists.

Concubine Jing smiled bitterly: "Forget it, let me say it myself, does Your Majesty think that I am going to abandon Your Majesty? Cough..."

She had a severe chest pain and coughed uncontrollably, "If I tell Your Majesty that I have no such intentions, and that I have never thought of leaving Your Majesty, will Your Majesty believe me?"

The emperor did not speak.

"Yes, I didn't ask the Dragon Shadow Guard to stop Old Hou Ye, that's because he saved my life after all, and I can't let the Dragon Shadow Guard kill him rashly without knowing what he's going to do."

"Later, he was also in a hurry, thinking that I had suffered a lot in the palace, so he wanted to take me away, but I didn't realize it for a while. I was about to refuse when His Majesty came."

The emperor's fists were tightly pulled, and his eyes were cold: "Then...has the concubine mother never had any friendship with him?"

"No." Concubine Jing said.

"Mother and concubine so sure?" the emperor asked.

Concubine Jing met his eyes without evasion, and said firmly: "Yes, I am very sure of my mind. I have always only had the late emperor in my heart, and I have never pretended to be any other man. I have always regarded him as my savior." , there is no love between men and women for him, it is his own misunderstanding."

After she finished speaking, she suddenly noticed something, and suddenly turned her head to look at the door, only to see old Hou Ye standing at the door with a shocked and hurt face.

She froze for a moment.

"Don't be so impulsive anymore, it will hurt your family. I was born as a member of the royal family, and I will die as the soul of the royal family. I will never be able to escape in this life. I don't want you to end up implicating the nine clans because of me. Your family is innocent of!"

"Think about Changqing, think about Chengfeng and Chenglin, and that child who suffered from heart disease since childhood, do you have the heart to let them be buried with you and me for your own sake? I'm not afraid of death, but I don't want to harm them! "

"From now on, you should pretend that you haven't seen me, and you only say that it was a momentary impulse in front of His Majesty, not a friendship between a man and a woman."

"What I owe you, I will pay it back to you in the next life... the next life."

Originally, she could have so many words to stabilize him without offending anyone.

But now, it's too late.

She turned to look at the emperor.

The emperor turned his head and looked at the old Hou Ye expressionlessly at the door: "Did Gu Aiqing hear the thoughts of the concubine?"

Did you hear it?

Almost every word stuck in his heart!

Old Hou Ye was trembling with anger, his fists were clenched and rattling.

Concubine Jing's expression changed, and she opened her mouth.

But the old Hou Ye didn't give her a chance to explain, took out the red knot that had been treasured in his bosom for many years, threw it into the burning fire beside him, turned around and left resolutely!

Concubine Jing closed her eyes, and the knuckles buried under the wide sleeves faintly pinched white.

...

What happened in Huaqing Palace has not been spread, the entire Huaqing Palace has been sealed, and even Empress Xiao has not heard any news when she came here.

Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't leak the news either.

For this, the emperor is grateful.

It was rare for him to stop the Empress Dowager Zhuang on his way to court, and thanked him awkwardly.

"What is Xie Ai's family?" The Empress Dowager Zhuang said lightly.

Now that no one is watching, why pretend?

"Nothing." The emperor left without looking back.

Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes: "Virtue!"

The nunnery of the imperial palace was repaired properly, and Concubine Jing moved there. It is said that the emperor was busy with official duties that day, so he did not personally send Concubine Jing to the nunnery.

"Isn't it falling out of favor?" In the imperial garden, a little maid who was sweeping the house muttered in a low voice.

The little eunuch beside her said: "How is it possible? The concubine is His Majesty's concubine, and it was His Majesty who brought her back to the palace from the nunnery!"

"But haven't you heard that His Majesty and the Empress Dowager have reconciled recently? Your Majesty is so anxious to let the Empress Dowager move out of Huaqing Palace..."

The little maid was only halfway through her words when she felt someone pinch her arm.

"I'm not wrong! I..." She turned her head and saw Concubine Jing's sedan chair stopped behind her.

She was so frightened that she plopped down on her knees: "Tai, Tai, Taifei!"

Concubine Jing didn't say anything, but Nanny Cai gave her a resentful look.

"Let's go." Concubine Jing said.

"Yes." Nanny Cai agreed.

After walking away, Concubine Jing said to Nanny Cai: "Ah Yue, you can see that everyone in this palace is attached to His Majesty...except the one in Renshou Palace."

Cai Momo looked at her distressedly: "Mother."

Concubine Jing pinched a leaf casually, rubbed it and murmured: "Without His Majesty's love, I would have choked to death drinking saliva in the palace. She doesn't need it, Ah Yue, she doesn't need it!"

...

Gu Jiao hasn't been to the palace for a few days.

Xiao Liulang didn't seem to see him doing too much when he was at home, but when he left, everyone realized that he was the hardest one at home.

Among other things, just tutoring the three little men with their homework tortured them to death.

There are always 100,000 whys in Xiaoqingkong, 100,000 reasons why Gu Yan doesn’t want to learn, and 100,000 reasons why Gu Xiaoshun doesn’t understand.

After all, the old Jijiu is getting old, and he can cope with it for a day or two. If he does it like this every day, he is almost mentally divided.

Besides, he is not free every day, once he gets caught up in the official duties of the Imperial College, the task of tutoring his homework falls on Gu Jiao.

So Gu Jiao has been very busy recently.

Xiao Jingkong has abacus homework today, Gu Jiao asked him to take out the golden abacus: "Where is your abacus? Has Chu Yu returned it to you yet?"

Xiao Jingkong rolled his eyes: "I paid it back, but... I lent it to Brother Congee again! They are good friends, so we should treat them equally!"

Yes, it is equal, he is such a clever little ghost!

Gu Jiao gave him a suspicious look: "Really?"

Xiao Jingkong nodded like a pounding garlic: "Really! I didn't sell it!"

Gu Jiao narrowed her eyes.

After finishing my homework, dinner is not ready yet.

Gu Jiao went to the backyard to collect the herbs to dry, and Xiao Jingkong poked out a small head from the main room: "Jiaojiao! I'm going to play with Zhao Xiaobao!"

After all, he ran away in a flash!

It was Zhao Xiaobao again.

The little guy is always looking for Zhao Xiaobao recently, when did he become so fond of playing with children younger than himself?

Gu Jiao felt weird, and after some hesitation, she put down the medicinal materials and left the yard.

She went to the next door. Uncle Zhao was repairing a stool in the yard. When he saw her coming, he greeted her with a smile, "Jiaojiao! Come in and sit down!"

"Uncle Zhao." Gu Jiao greeted politely and asked, "Has Qing Kong come over?"

"No." Uncle Zhao shook his head.

really.

Gu Jiao asked again: "Where's Xiaobao? Is he there?"

Uncle Zhao said: "Xiao Bao is not here, I'm going to find Brother Hu!"

Brother Hu is Grandma Zhou's grandson, on the other side of the alley.

Could it be that Xiao Jingkong went there to find Zhao Xiaobao?

Uncle Zhao asked, "Did you get out of the room?"

Gu Jiao said: "Yes, he said he came to find Xiaobao."

Uncle Zhao frowned, pointed in the direction of Chang'an Avenue, and said, "I've seen this kid go there a few times recently, and I thought you guys knew."

"Then I'll look for it."

Gu Jiao left Zhao's house and walked towards Chang'an Avenue.

The little guy has become so courageous recently that he even dared to lie and slip out of this alley.

Gu Jiao decided that after catching the little guy, no matter how coquettish and cute he is, he must be severely punished!

Gu Jiao came to Chang'an Avenue. Chang'an Avenue was originally busier than Xuanwu Avenue, but since the women's school opened on Xuanwu Avenue, it has brought a lot of traffic.

Now the two streets are indistinguishable from each other.

Gu Jiao walked a few steps, and vaguely sensed a strange aura.

This breath is very faint, if it is not close, it is almost difficult to detect.

That person was following Bishui Hutong.

Gu Jiao seldom goes this way, and she didn't have this aura when she came last time.

With a movement of Gu Jiao's fingertips, a piece of black powder was shot out!

The other party thought it was a hidden weapon, so he drew his knife to block it, and the black powder exploded on the blade with a bang!

"Oh! What is this thing!"

The man rolled down from the roof with a croak!

Gu Jiao stepped forward a few steps and stepped on the opponent's chest.

That man was not a vegetarian, even if he was blown up, he still had a little strength to fight back. He jumped up like a carp, avoiding Gu Jiao's feet.

Then he swung his knife and stabbed Gu Jiao horizontally!

The only cold weapon Gu Jiao used in her previous life was a dagger, and it was not easy to hurt her with this.

Gu Jiao folded one hand, grabbed his wrist, and twisted her backhand, knocking off his dagger, and then slashed at him with a hand knife, smashing him to the wall.

Gu Jiao cut his hands behind his back, and his face was pressed against the cold wall: "Who are you? Why are you sneaking around here?"

He said angrily, "What are you doing!"

As soon as the other party finished speaking, a golden object fell out of his arms and fell to the ground. What is it if it is not the golden abacus of Xiao Qingkong?

Gu Jiao's eyes turned cold: "It turns out that the golden abacus was taken away by you!"

The other party yelled: "What snatched it! I didn't snatch it!"

Gu Jiao said coldly: "If it's not a robbery, then it's a steal?"

The other party gasped: "It wasn't stolen either!"

As soon as Gu Jiao exerted force, he could only feel his bones cracking, and hurriedly said: "I bought it! I found someone to buy it! If you like it, just take it! It's not worth much anyway!"

The golden abacus is not worth much, and the tone is not small!

This person knew martial arts at first glance, Gu Jiao was worried that he had bullied Xiao Qingkong and got it from Xiao Qingkong, and she didn't want to show mercy.

Just when she almost broke his ribs, he suddenly said, "If you don't believe me, ask him! I bought it from him!"

Gu Jiao turned her head to look, and Xiao Qingkong looked up.

Looking at each other, Xiao Jingkong's body trembled.

"Jiao, Jiaojiao?" He hid the thing in his hand behind his back.

Gu Jiao pressed the man with both hands, she didn't have a hand to pick up the abacus, so she looked at the golden abacus on the ground and said, "You found your abacus, pick it up quickly."

The little headroom didn't move.

He lowered his head.

The guard in gray said: "Little brother, this is the abacus my son asked you to buy! Do you still remember my son? The man with the white jade folding fan and the man in white clothes and black gauze."

Xiao Qingkong's expression gave Gu Jiao the answer.

Gu Jiao let go, and the gray-clothed guard fell to the ground in pain.

What kind of woman is this? How come you have so much strength?

Gu Jiao walked over, knelt down and looked at Xiao Qingkong with her head drooping, and asked, "Why did you sell your abacus?"

Xiao Jingkong lowered his head: "I want money."

Gu Jiao looked at him, and said seriously: "If you want money, you can tell me, all your money is with me, I just keep it for you, you can take it anytime you need it."

Seeing that he didn't speak, Gu Jiao asked again: "What do you want money for?"

"Buy this." Xiao Jingkong took out the baggage hidden behind his back.

The baggage is heavy and bulging, and I don't know what to pack.

Gu Jiao took the burden: "What are you buying this for?"

Xiao Jingkong said in a low voice, "To Jiaojiao."

"Give it to me?"

Gu Jiao opened it strangely, and a bright red glow shone——

She never expected that it would be a brand new wedding dress inside.