The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 368 Concubine Pit (Part 2)

"Who is this idiot?"

The Empress Dowager Zhuang asked casually.

Only then did Gu Chengfeng realize that the Empress Dowager Zhuang had also come and stood behind Gu Jiao.

Gu Chengfeng and Empress Dowager Zhuang had a double relationship, one was in Bishui Hutong, and the other was when he and Gu Jiao were chased by Tang Ming to the vicinity of the palace.

Empress Dowager Zhuang "killed" them as assassins, which made Tang Ming feel relieved.

To say that the inspiration to pretend to be an assassin and be killed came from the Queen Mother.

That time Gu Chengfeng wore a mask, so Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't immediately recognize him as Gu Jiao's "friend" that night.

At this time, Gu Chengfeng's face was covered with dirt, and the Empress Dowager Zhuang did not recognize him as Gu Chengfeng.

But in the next second, Queen Mother Zhuang guessed something: "Oh, the one going to the Marshal's Mansion."

Are the eyes so poisonous?

Can you guess this too?

Obviously his voice has changed when he speaks!

If the Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't even have any skills, it would be in vain to dominate the harem for so many years. She gave Gu Chengfeng a flat look: "What's your relationship with Jiaojiao?"

Why do you think this is a proposition?

Gu Chengfeng looked at Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao folded her arms and stood by.

what! This girl, just throw it away when you're done using it! How heartless!

"Report to the Empress Dowager." He stood up and bowed his hands, "Gu Chengfeng, a grassroots man, has seen the Empress Dowager."

"Oh."

Brother Jiaojiao, not wild flowers and weeds.

Don't bother her to hold her little great-grandson.

Then Empress Dowager Zhuang left without asking Gu Chengfeng why he knew martial arts and why he entered the palace.

Gu Chengfeng was a little confused: "...the empress dowager's temperament is still, quite unique."

Eunuch Qin's bastard really stunned the two of them. The bastard's shell was hard and nothing serious, but he was a little frightened and stayed in the shell all afternoon.

Gu Jiao treated Gu Chengfeng's shoulder injury and asked him for a thousand taels of silver, which was called a consultation fee.

Gu Chengfeng, who still hasn't warmed up with the one thousand taels of silver, said, "..."

Gu Chengfeng looked at her with a headache: "Speaking of which, you would rather give up the imperial decree to save me from the Dragon Shadow Guard. Could it be that you are greedy for this thousand taels of silver?"

after all,

If he died, the body would definitely be disposed of, and she would not be able to get the banknote.

Gu Jiao had such an impossible expression on her face!

Gu Chengfeng understood, and suddenly he was a little moved. This girl also has a bit of conscience, isn't she only thinking about oppressing him.

Gu Jiao seriously analyzed: "If you die, I will lose one thousand taels, but if you are alive, you can earn me many more one thousand taels! As for the imperial decree, aren't you the number one thief? Go and steal it next time." Come back!"

Gu Chengfeng: "..."

So why is he moved?

The two had lunch at Empress Dowager Zhuang's Renshou Palace.

After all, Gu Chengfeng couldn't treat Empress Dowager Zhuang as an ordinary aunt, and ate a meal extremely cautiously, but Gu Jiao kept groaning, her cheeks were bulging, reminiscent of a little aunt he once caught in the back mountain. fat squirrel.

In the nunnery, Concubine Jing waited quietly while knocking on the wooden fish and chanting scriptures.

However, she did not wait for the news that Nanny Cai had captured the assassin, but instead waited for the bad news that Nanny Cai was detained and interrogated by the emperor.

"Ms. Taifei." The little nun who reported the letter for her knelt behind her and looked at her anxiously, "What should we do? Cai Nanny was arrested... Why did His Majesty arrest Cai Nanny? Cai is not us Are you from the nunnery? Your Majesty is not..."

The little nun said a series of grievances in one breath, and at the end she shed tears.

The palace has always been unable to hide things, and one point of things can give ten points of color.

There is no need for Renshou Palace to spread anything specially. The arrest of Madam Cai is enough to make people guess whether the relationship between Concubine Jing and the emperor is really tense.

"Ms. Taifei, let's go and beg Your Majesty to let Nanny Cai go... Nanny Cai is getting old... I can't bear those hardships..."

The little nun has not been in the palace for a long time, but she has heard a lot about the torture in the palace. She was arrested and interrogated.

she worried.

She is also afraid.

Afraid that the big arm would collapse and crush her who was also in the building to death.

As night fell, the nunnery was silent, and the weeping of the little nun gradually merged into the night.

Concubine Jing didn't do anything, she didn't even send anyone to inquire about Nanny Cai, she just sat quietly in the Buddhist hall with her hands clasped together, as if she was worshiping Buddha devoutly, or just sitting there.

The little nun finally couldn't stand it anymore. She had only heard about the cruelty of the imperial palace, but she hadn't experienced it personally.

She choked up and ran to Huaqing Palace.

"Let me meet Your Majesty! The concubine has not eaten or drank all day... If this goes on... If this goes on...she will get sick..."

She cried very loudly.

This is taboo in the palace.

She didn't know how lucky she was, not to be dragged down and judged by palace rules.

"What's the noise outside?" The emperor put down the folder in his hand and asked, pinching his brows.

Eunuch Wei said in a low voice: "It's the little mistress next to the empress dowager, who said... the empress dowager hasn't eaten all day."

The emperor frowned.

Eunuch Wei looked at his words and said, "Your Majesty, do you want your servant to go and have a look?"

The emperor opened his mouth.

He actually hesitated, for a moment he wanted to nod.

Then he was frightened by his own thoughts. In the past, when he heard news about Concubine Jing, he would always immediately put down his official duties to visit her, but now that she hadn't had a drop of water all day, he was actually not in such a hurry.

He shouldn't be like this.

He closed his eyes and said, "I'm going to the nunnery."

Eunuch Wei: "Yes."

The emperor did not sit in a sedan chair, but walked with Eunuch Wei himself.

Concubine Jing likes to be quiet, so the location was very remote at that time, and the nunnery itself was not built because of rushing to use it overnight.

Now being engulfed by the night, he seemed even more small and helpless.

When the little nun saw the emperor coming, she was pleasantly surprised: "Your Majesty—"

The emperor didn't look at her, but raised his hand lightly.

The little nun was instantly awed by the power of the real dragon.

The lights of the Buddhist hall were on, and a lonely figure danced on the window paper, and the emperor walked over.

In the deserted Buddhist hall, Concubine Jing sat on the ground alone. She tried her best to straighten her back, but it seemed that she couldn't resist the passing of time and the passing of time.

The emperor's heart suddenly felt a little sour: "Mother Concubine..."

Concubine Jing didn't look back, she said coldly and flatly: "Your Majesty, please come back if you have nothing to do."

Hearing her emotionless voice, the emperor felt the sourness in his heart grow stronger: "My concubine is blaming me..."

Concubine Jing laughed at herself: "What's your fault? It's your fault for arresting Nanny Cai, or your nightmare of thinking that I was a scourge, and the queen mother is your close mother, or that you took me out of the palace?" The receiver came back, but sent me out of the Huaqing Palace in a hurry? Your Majesty, what am I? How many mothers are there in the world who are expected to be called mother by their own son?"

She said, turning around.

There were no tears in her eyes, only endless sadness.

Seeing her like this, the emperor felt his heart ache.

How could he doubt his concubine mother?

How could she have her own secret?

How could she send assassins to assassinate the queen mother?

Ning Anyuan was married, and she was forced to go to the nunnery again, and her only son couldn't be married. How did she spend these years alone?

Did he forget it?

He walked up to her, sat down in front of her, and held his hand: "Hong'er will never do it again. In Hong'er's heart, the concubine mother will always be Hong'er's only mother."

Concubine Jing's fingertips trembled, her eyes turned red.

The emperor squeezed her hand guiltily: "Mother hasn't eaten yet, Hong'er will accompany you to eat."

Concubine Jing asked firmly: "Then Your Majesty...does he no longer doubt me?"

"I..." The emperor hesitated for a very short moment, "I won't."

Concubine Jing lowered her eyes.

...

"So Concubine Jing hides so deeply." On the carriage back, Gu Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh with emotion to Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao wouldn't talk to him about these things. Gu Jiao seldom talked. It was the revolutionary friendship that Gu Chengfeng helped Eunuch Qin to feed the bastard. Eunuch Qin had already told him about it.

What surprised Gu Chengfeng the most was that Concubine Jing was even willing to kill the emperor. He was her adopted son. How could she be willing to feed him so many strange medicines? I'm not afraid to make people stupid.

"The most poisonous woman's heart!"

His words were originally a pun, and he wanted to take this opportunity to tease Gu Jiao.

But Gu Jiao didn't respond at all.

Gu Chengfeng only felt that he had punched the cotton.

The carriage was walking unsteadily, and when he thought of something, Gu Chengfeng suddenly smiled narrowly: "You just changed the black medicine and the white medicine, didn't you? Then if she prescribes medicine to the emperor next time, it will be counterproductive?"

The moon was dark and the wind was high, and the nunnery was quiet, except for the sound of frying in the small kitchen.

The emperor went to another meditation room to wait.

Concubine Jing pushed open the door of her meditation room and walked in slowly, then she swung her sleeves back and closed the door with internal force.

She opened the closet and took out the black medicine and the white medicine from the small box.

She uncorked the white medicine bottle, poured out a dark brown pill, and wrapped it in a white veil.

She was about to leave after finishing all this, but she suddenly stopped.

Her eyes fell on the small box, looked at the place where the imperial decree had been placed, and then looked at the two bottles——

Suddenly, she put the medicine back into the white bottle, and poured out a medicine from the black bottle.

She took the medicine in the black bottle and went to the meditation room next door.

Vegetarian dishes are ready.

The emperor sat squatting on the mat with her, and the emperor personally served her dishes.

"Your Majesty eats by himself," she said.

"There is no Your Majesty, no Concubine, only Hong'er and Niang." The emperor picked up a piece of tender bamboo shoots for Concubine Jing, "I remember that Niang likes to eat bamboo shoots, but now is not the season for eating bamboo shoots, only pickled bamboo shoots, waiting for winter bamboo shoots." When it comes out, I’ll have someone dig a big basket and bring it back.”

Concubine Jing said: "Where can I eat so much?"

"Your Majesty, this is the mushroom soup made by the empress herself!" The little nun happily brought up a bowl of soup.

The emperor said: "Mother and concubine don't work so hard anymore."

Concubine Jing said: "It's rare for you to come here."

The emperor solemnly said: "I will come every day, every day."

I don't know if these words reached Concubine Jing's heart, but her expression was not so cold at last.

She sighed, picked up the spoon, and served the emperor a bowl of mountain mushroom soup.

"Back off, all of you," she said.

"Yes." The little nun and the servants retreated gradually.

"Retire too." The emperor said to Eunuch Wei.

Eunuch Wei: "...Yes."

There were only two people left in the meditation room exuding the scent of sandalwood.

The so-called white medicine and black medicine do not insist on who feeds him, but only make him see himself when the effect of the medicine is exerted, and remember himself deeply, then that is enough.

"Drink it while it's hot." She handed the soup bowl to the emperor.

The emperor took a sip and said with a smile: "Mother's cooking skills are still as good as ever."

"As long as you like it."

"Your Majesty! The Empress Dowager summons you to discuss matters!"

Suddenly, Eunuch Wei's report came from outside the door.

Concubine Jing looked at him slightly, and the emperor's heart ached from her uneasy eyes, and he said: "I'm eating, we'll discuss the matter another day!"

"...Yes." Eunuch Wei reluctantly agreed.

The emperor picked up the spoon and drank the mountain mushroom soup that his concubine mother made for him in one gulp.

After eating a bowl of mountain mushroom soup, the emperor put down the bowl and held his forehead: "Mother, I am a little dizzy."

Concubine Jing looked at him tenderly: "It's okay, just sleep for a while when you feel dizzy, and you'll be fine when you wake up."

The emperor lay on the table, looking at Concubine Jing dazedly, in front of his eyes was the smile of Concubine Jing, beside his ears was the voice of Concubine Jing, and at the tip of his nose was the breath of Concubine Jing.

All this was deeply embedded in his mind.

He wants to remember this person, why he remembers he doesn't know.

He just remembered it deeply.

On the carriage, Gu Jiao lazily leaned against the wall of the carriage: "I changed the black medicine and the white medicine, but I changed them back again."

Gu Chengfeng turned pale with astonishment: "What did you say? You, you changed back? So...the white bottle is still white medicine, and the black bottle is still black medicine?"

Gu Jiao nodded: "That's right."

Gu Chengfeng was stunned: "Why did you do this?"

Gu Jiao said lightly: "Because the godfather said that in this world, there are always some people who like to be smart but are misled by their cleverness."