The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 401: The End (Part 1)

"Impossible - why do you - Zhuang Jinse, why do you -"

Behind her was Concubine Jing's hoarse roar, accompanied by the sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground, but with the Dragon Shadow Guard included, Empress Dowager Zhuang was not worried that Concubine Jing would rush up.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang left the room without looking back.

The emperor stood at the door with a dumbfounded expression on his face.

Obviously, he had been eavesdropping just now, and he had listened to it verbatim.

Concubine Jing revealed many inside stories, but he only focused on the last one. He looked at Empress Dowager Zhuang, grabbed the hem of her clothes nervously and nervously, and said awkwardly and excitedly: "I... dear son?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang gave him a look of disdain: "No, no!"

The voice is quite loud.

The emperor poked his head out, looked in the direction of Concubine Jing in the room, and gave Empress Dowager Zhuang a "I understand" look.

Afterwards, he followed the Queen Mother into the next room.

"What are you doing here?" Queen Mother Zhuang asked bluntly.

The emperor chuckled: "I know that the empress mother told Concubine Jing on purpose, and I was born by the empress mother herself!"

Empress Dowager Zhuang: "..."

How can this person stop listening?

She doesn't recognize the child she gave birth to herself, does she?

Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced under the emperor's waist: "The Ai family gave birth to a child without handles!"

The emperor clamped his legs tightly and looked aggrieved.

Just when the Empress Dowager Zhuang thought that this stupid son understood what she meant, and finally stopped being stupid, the emperor said aggrievedly: "No matter Xiao, Hong, Hong, Xiao, Hong, Hong were born by the queen mother!"

The Empress Dowager Zhuang who couldn't bear to look directly: "..."

Can she be ugly?

In the room on the other side, Old Hou Ye and Gu Chengfeng stared wide-eyed.

Gu Chengfeng stood in the middle of the room with his head drooping like a caught little quail.

The old master sat on the chair boldly, looked at Gu Chengfeng with a complicated expression: "Why are you here?"

This has to start with Gu Chengfeng's encounter with the emperor. The chance of him and the Empress Dowager Zhuang escaping was bought by Gu Jiao with his life. Lord, he was recognized by Old Hou Ye at a glance.

The only fortunate thing is that he didn't fight against anyone at that time,

Only a little light work was used.

Gu Chengfeng stammered and said: "I... was in Bishui Hutong at that time. Your Majesty came down to Bishui Hutong to look for the queen mother. I heard it in the study. I was worried about the safety of the queen mother, so I also came out to look for it. I... also tried my best. Little power."

It sounds strange no matter how an ignorant little dandy wants to do his meager service for the queen mother.

Old Hou Ye said again: "The people who guard the city let you out like this?"

Gu Chengfeng didn't change his face and said: "I... took out the token of Ding'an Hou Mansion, said it was your grandson, and they let it go."

The old Hou Ye was dubious, but compared to how he got out of the city, the old Hou Ye cared more about how he knew the Queen Mother and how he knew martial arts?

Gu Chengfeng didn't know whether his grandfather knew about the Empress Dowager Zhuang's exile among the people. After all, the Empress Dowager Zhuang had always claimed that she had spent the previous year recuperating in the palace.

He was worried that he said something that shouldn't be said, so he said: "What's wrong with this? It's not that I haven't been in the palace before! When I went to visit Aunt Concubine Shu, I saw the Queen Mother from a distance, and I also met several times. Once! And once, I accidentally lost my way, and it was the queen mother who asked me to show me the way. I have never told you this, and I know that you all don't like the queen mother."

The first few sentences were thought up on the way back halfway, and the queen mother gave him directions were made up at the moment.

This perfectly explained why he came out to find the Queen Mother, because the Queen Mother had helped him!

He is reciprocating!

Wow, how did I suddenly become so smart!

As expected of me!

"As for martial arts, hey, how can I know martial arts? It's just a little light work, I learned it secretly from my elder brother!"

Perfect logic!

He is so good at it!

That is... Where did this ability to make up small scripts come from? Inexplicably familiar...

The old Hou Ye still felt weird, but he really couldn't find fault. He couldn't go to the Empress Dowager Zhuang for verification. The Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't even bother to talk to the emperor, let alone him.

He would be punished for sneaking out of the mansion late at night. For the sake of Gu Chengfeng's contribution in saving the queen mother, the old Hou asked him to go back in a carriage.

Immediately afterwards, the old Hou Ye went to the emperor to return his life, and repeated Gu Chengfeng's speech, probably because he was worried that the emperor would be suspicious, why their children were hiding their clumsiness, and whether they were planning something secretly.

After all, after what happened to Concubine Jing, the old Hou Ye obviously felt that the emperor did not trust him as much as before.

The emperor was still immersed in the great joy that he might be the stepmother's son, and he didn't have time to doubt this or that. He praised Gu Chengfeng and praised the old Hou Ye for his teaching skills.

Concubine Jing is a remnant of the previous dynasty and no longer needs any evidence, and she is convicted of the crime, not to mention that she stole the imperial decree of the first emperor and murdered the queen mother of a country. The crime is heinous and unforgivable.

If Concubine Jing is really allowed to take Empress Dowager Zhuang to the frontier, the consequences will be disastrous.

The queen mother's life will be in jeopardy, the royal family's face will be disgraced, and the morale of the soldiers of the armed forces will be low... The country of Zhao will fall into unprecedented turmoil

This time, the emperor did not have any benevolence for women.

He came to the house where Concubine Jing was held.

Concubine Jing had stopped struggling, and she slumped on the chair with a dull expression like a body whose soul had been hollowed out.

The emperor glanced at her wrist which was bloody and bloody rubbed by the rope due to the struggle, and said nothing, and asked Eunuch Wei to bring the things in.

Concubine Jing seemed to have finally regained her composure. She turned her face, with tears that had not yet dried up, and said in a hoarse voice, "Hong'er..."

The emperor said disgustedly: "Don't call me Hong'er, you are not worthy."

Concubine Jing smiled self-deprecatingly, looked at the emperor and said, "Hong'er, you only hated Concubine Mother so much after taking the medicine. A woman is a hundred times, a thousand times more important!"

The emperor's gaze was as cold as the winter wind: "You are wrong! No matter whether the medicine works or not, I will never trust you again, let alone regard you as my real mother!"

"Really?" Concubine Jing laughed twice, showing an innocent and bewildered look, "Then what are you doing here? Do you want to ask me a question? I'm afraid you will be disappointed. I won't do anything." Said."

The emperor knew that she would react like this, and the descendants of the dead men of the previous dynasty also had the heart of a dead man after all, and he didn't expect to pry the news out of her mouth: "I'm here to see you off for the last time."

Concubine Jing's body froze slightly.

Eunuch Wei walked forward carrying a tray, on which were a bottle of poison and a length of white silk.

Concubine Jing finally couldn't laugh anymore: "You really...are so cruel...you father and son...are so cruel...you...you..."

She didn't cry, but there were big tears falling down.

The emperor did not soften his heart in the slightest: "Mother and son, this is the last respect I will give you."

"Decent? You killed your mother... What are you talking about about decency!" Concubine Jing scolded all over the place, and the whole person laughed wildly, "You really deserve to be your father's own son... You will have retribution... ...you will have your retribution!"

The emperor will not be swayed by a few curses: "I am the Son of Heaven, I was born in accordance with the way of heaven..."

Concubine Jing interrupted him: "Son of Heaven? Hahaha, I'm afraid you have forgotten how you got your throne!"

The emperor pondered carefully for a moment, then nodded and said: "That's right, it was my mother who helped me plan this, so I want to be grateful to my mother, and from now on I won't make her unhappy again."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and left the room without even giving a single glance to Concubine Jing.

...

A major event happened in the capital city in August—Concubine Jing passed away, because her current identity is still Master Jing'an, so it is more accurate to say that Master Jing'an passed away.

Mrs. Jing'an has always had an image of being weak and weak to the outside world. For this reason, Princess Rui brought doctors from Miaoshou Hall to visit her twice for diagnosis and treatment, and the emperor also took her back to the palace to rest.

It has to be said that her disguise of a sick and weak person helped a lot, and almost no one suspected that her passing away was tricky. After hearing this news, everyone thought, "Oh, my health is so poor, I still can't survive it." This year..."

However, there were some unpredictable things. For example, everyone thought that the emperor would restore Master Jing'an's status as a concubine, posthumously designate her as the empress dowager, and bury her with the empress dowager's ceremony.

Unexpectedly, the emperor did not do this.

She was Mrs. Jing'an until she was buried in the coffin.

When the news reached Bishui Hu, Gu Jiao, Xiao Liulang and Gu Chengfeng were all there.

"Your Majesty, he really..." Gu Chengfeng was shocked. As one of the insiders that night, he naturally understood that there was no reason for Concubine Jing's death, but he didn't expect His Majesty to really do this.

Do you sympathize?

the answer is negative.

That old hag did a lot of evil, harmed the harem for many years, made the Queen Mother and His Majesty turn against each other, and almost died at each other's hands, not to mention the innocent Princess Ning'an.

As long as she is not removed for a day, she will always be a huge hidden danger to the court.

Concubine Jing's funeral was handled by Empress Xiao, and the emperor didn't even show his face.

The emperor decided to send someone to the frontier. He originally planned to send Gu Changqing there. After all, Gu Changqing was in the army and he was someone who could be dispatched on the surface.

However, Gu Changqing did not return from Beijing, and this matter was urgent, the emperor thought about it, and called Tang Yueshan and Laohou to the palace.

He handed the token capable of mobilizing the Dragon Shadow Guard to the old Hou Ye, and said solemnly: "I entrust you with the token, and I hope you can do three things for me—first, take back the Dragon Shadow Guard." Wei; second, thoroughly investigate the situation at the border; third...bring Princess Ning'an back safely!"

The old Hou Ye never expected that the emperor would entrust him with such an important task. He was stunned for a moment, then clasped his fists together and said, "Your servant... accept the decree!"

The emperor then looked at Tang Yueshan: "I don't need to say more about your mission, do you?"

Tang Yueshan clasped his fists and saluted: "The minister hereby issues a military order, and vows not to return the court unless all the party members of the previous court are killed!"

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