Chapter 81: Old Stories
Concubine Shugui remained silent.
She accepted his flattery this time.
She ordered her maids in the palace to invite Concubine Xian to cook. If this got out, Concubine Xian would be criticized in the palace.
Xiao Guangzi and Mi Chun received the order, but before they left the palace, they were scared away by the people outside.
"Tai..."
"Empress Dowager!"
The two of them knelt down and saluted: "
Your servant pays respects to the Empress Dowager." "Your servant pays respects to the Empress Dowager."
Emperor Qingling in the palace had a cold look in his eyes. He touched Concubine Shu Gui's back soothingly, stood up and said: "I'll go and see, you have a good rest first."
Concubine Shu Gui pretended not to know what happened today and wanted to get up and get out of bed: "The Empress Dowager came to Guangling Palace in person, how can I not greet her?"
Emperor Qingling frowned, pressed her hard on the couch, and said coldly: "I told you to rest, so you rest."
His emotions were a little out of control. Concubine Shu Gui looked into his eyes, and there was a panic in her eyes.
Emperor Qingling realized that he spoke too coldly, and bent down to hug Concubine Shu Gui.
This was the scene that the Empress Dowager saw when she came in.
Her face suddenly sank.
"Emperor, I have been looking for you for a long time. I didn't expect that you are here with Concubine Shugui."
Emperor Qingling ignored him and said in a deep voice in Concubine Shugui's ear: "Just wait for me here, I will take care of it."
Concubine Shugui nodded and lay on the couch under his burning gaze.
Emperor Qingling turned around, walked to the Queen Mother, and said in a deep voice: "Have you forgotten what you promised me, mother? I gave my fourteenth brother a favor and did not confine you, but mother, why did you come to Guangling Palace today?"
The Queen Mother looked over him at Concubine Shu Gui on the couch and sneered: "I really don't understand. There are so many concubines in the harem, why are you staring at Concubine Shu Gui? She is so charming to the monarch. If she had been put in a pig cage before, it would not be an exaggeration. Your Majesty, do you know that you are harming her now?" Emperor
Qingling frowned and looked back at Concubine Shu Gui.
She was trying to turn her head to look at him on the couch.
The scar on her cheek left by saving him was still faintly visible, and he suddenly felt very sorry for her sincerity.
They met and fell in love when they were young, and after running away for several years, he had forgotten his original intention.
He said in a deep voice: "Mother, follow me out, this is not the place to talk." The
Queen Mother looked him straight in the eyes and said lightly: "A king, if he has weaknesses, it will give other countries an opportunity to take advantage of him. You are exposing the country of Daling to the world."
Emperor Qingling took a half step forward, lowered his voice, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Mother, I don't have much patience. The one you love in your heart is now an official in the court. Do you think I don't know who the fourteenth child is?"
In the past two days, he was investigating the Prince Heng's mansion, but he found out some old things.
Zhenbei King Tuoba Bin and the Queen Mother had a past.
Before entering the palace, the Queen Mother had secretly agreed to marry the King of Zhenbei, but she married the late Emperor for the glory of Wuya
. However, the two never lost contact. With the help of Wuya's resources, the King of Zhenbei entered the court as an official and took the opportunity to get along with the Queen Mother. The Fourteenth Prince was their illegitimate son.
This matter has been weighing on Prince Heng's mind for many years, but he has always kept letters from that year in the secret compartment of his study.
The purpose was to force the Queen Mother to work for Wuya.
When the Queen Mother entered the palace, the condition for helping Wuya was to share Wuya's resources with the King of Zhenbei. After
the death of the late Emperor, the King of Zhenbei was transferred to guard the border, and the Queen Mother always hated him.
Previously, he was puzzled as to why the Queen Mother always wanted to stir up harem disputes in order to create chaos in the world. Now, it seems that everything has a clue.
The Queen Mother stood up suddenly, her face changed suddenly, and she said solemnly: "Emperor, I am your biological mother!"
Emperor Qingling whispered: "Mother, don't shout, do you want Concubine Shugui to know that my mother is such an unruly and cruel person?"
The Queen Mother had a dark face and walked out angrily.
Emperor Qingling heaved a sigh of relief, turned his head to look at Concubine Shu Gui lying on the couch, smiled and said, "Yaohe, you have a good rest, I will go out to talk to my mother."
Concubine Shu Gui looked at him and said softly, "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is old and can't stand stimulation. Please don't be angry with her. I know that you have always longed to reconcile with the Queen Mother."
Her words almost made Emperor Qingling cry.
He looked at her with more tenderness.
He lowered his eyes and said, "I know."
Concubine Shu Gui smiled and said, "Then I will wait for the emperor here."
"Yes."
In the courtyard of Guangling Palace, the Queen Mother stood in the courtyard.
She was still wearing the fox fur cloak that the late emperor gave her.
It was made of snow wolves in the northwest region, and it was very valuable and hard to find.
Emperor Qingling looked at her and stepped forward and said, "Mother, the affairs of the harem have come to an end. If you interfere again, don't blame me for not considering our past friendship." The Queen
Mother dismissed the maid beside her and frowned, "When you ascended the throne, you designed to have the Fourteenth Prince abolished. He is your biological brother. If he hadn't been exposed a few days ago, how long would you have kept this a secret from me?"
That day, when she heard that the Fourteenth Prince personally said that he was a useless man, her heart was clenched.
I have been sick for several days, and today I don't know why, I suddenly feel strong.
Emperor Qingling said expressionlessly: "There is only one person in the world who is suitable to be the emperor, and that's enough for me."
The Queen Mother laughed in anger: "Okay, okay, I gave birth to you, but I didn't expect that I gave birth to an enemy for myself and the Fourteenth Prince!"
"If he had been law-abiding, he would have lived a peaceful life, but he actually asked me to go to patrol the salt mines. Mother, I am keeping him, which is a mercy beyond the law. Now I just announce to the public that he is an incomplete eunuch and will never be able to succeed to the throne. I thought you would be grateful to me." As soon as the Queen Mother
finished speaking, she suddenly raised her hand.
Before the slap fell ,
the guards around Emperor Qingling came up one by one, pointing their swords at the Queen Mother.
The Queen Mother looked at them protecting their master, her hands lost strength, and she frowned and said, "You are now the emperor, I can't hit you, but God is watching what you do. If you do this, aren't you afraid that your children will become like you in the future?"
Emperor Qingling curled his lips and said in a flat tone, "Cause and effect are the way of heaven and earth. If my children follow in my footsteps in the future, I will only think that he did a good job and was decisive and ruthless as a qualified emperor."
The Queen Mother looked at Emperor Qingling and felt terrible.
She never knew that the emperor had this side.
The fearless eyes and insights that even understood everything were too unique.
In other words, he did a good job as the emperor.
The Queen Mother took a deep breath and was silent for a long time before she said, "I will not interfere in the affairs of the Fourteenth Prince. I only hope that you can spare his life. However, the Queen cannot be confined to her house. You know better than me why she couldn't give birth that day." Emperor
Qing Ling's eyes darkened.
The Queen caught a cold, and the culprit was his Consort Shu Gui.
After he knew about it, he took advantage of the situation and made the Queen's condition worse, so that she could no longer give birth, and designed to make Wu Ya's children never have royal blood.
In the eyes of the Queen Mother, this matter was the fault of Consort Shu Gui alone.
He really owed her a lot.