Chapter 564: He may be unable to bear it any longer
The carriage was shaking slightly, and the queen's face turned pale, perhaps because she was carsick or something else.
"Are you okay?" Xie Yingmian asked.
The Queen shook her head: "Don't worry, I'm in good health."
"Yingmian, you have to worry about yourself."
"His behavior is getting more and more outrageous, and I'm always worried that he's about to lose control."
"Mid-Autumn Festival is coming soon. On that day, you and Prince Ling will both enter the palace. The thought of you entering the palace makes me feel uneasy."
"I wonder if Prince Ling has told you that the banquets for the female and male relatives are separate. The female relatives are in the harem, and the male relatives are in the front court. They are far apart."
Xie Yingmian nodded.
Yu Lingye specifically told her about this matter.
"I've made two plans," the Queen said. "The first is that you find an opportunity to feign illness and use it as an excuse to not attend the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. This is the most appropriate."
"The second plan is that if you have to go to the palace, I will accompany you the whole time."
"I have pushed the task of hosting the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet onto the Imperial Concubine. The Imperial Concubine will be in charge of the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. This way, I will have some free time. I will stay by your side until I send you out of the palace safely."
Xie Yingmian knew that the Queen did all this for her, and it would be a lie to say that she was not touched.
"Thank you." Xie Yingmian said.
The Queen said, "Compared to the kindness you have shown me and our Chu family, what I have done is nothing."
"Besides, I have a bad feeling." The Queen sighed, "I feel that the first option may not work."
Xie Yingmian also felt so.
Previously, she used the hot weather as an excuse to delay reattaching Fan Yue's broken leg, and the emperor agreed on the surface.
In fact, the emperor transported Chu Xiao back from afar.
The emperor had plenty of ways to thwart her plans.
"If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. Just let it be. Don't worry, I have the ability to protect myself." Xie Yingmian said.
The Queen nodded and said, "Anyway, try to stay by my side during the Mid-Autumn Festival."
"Even if you leave me, don't wander around, especially don't go to the area around Yuyu Lake and the Imperial Beast Garden."
Without waiting for Xie Yingmian to ask,
The Queen spoke very quickly, "There is a rockery at the bottom of Yuyu Lake. Many carnivorous fish were raised near the rockery. It was originally used for viewing the scenery."
"My people have heard that the emperor threw the bodies of deceased palace maids into a rockery, covered them with rocks, and let the fish devour them. This way, the bodies would not rot and stink, and no one would find them."
"After all, there are only a limited number of fish in Yuyu Lake. If too many people die, we won't be able to handle the bodies."
"He ordered the establishment of a zoo near Yuyu Lake. There, they kept many man-eating beasts, such as tigers, lions, pythons, and snakes. The carcasses that couldn't be disposed of were sent there to be fed to the wild beasts."
"You must never go near those two places."
The Queen clenched her sleeves with her fingers and closed her eyes slightly: "As the Queen, as the Master of the Six Palaces, I should protect them."
"But I can't do it."
"I can barely protect myself. The people protecting Fengkun Palace have already done their best. I can do nothing about those palace maids and eunuchs who were tortured to death."
When the queen said this, her whole body was shaking.
These days, she always thought of the emperor who was as gentle as jade and considerate.
Because the emperor was much older than her, he was like a father and a brother.
At that time, she also loved sincerely.
But I don’t know when the love faded, and the elegant man in my memory became the hideous man he is today.
Xie Yingmian said, "Your Majesty, you have done very well."
The queen smiled bitterly and said nothing more.
Entered the Grand Princess's Mansion.
The Queen followed the Grand Princess into the room and burst into tears when she saw the emaciated Chu Xiao.
Time is tight.
She couldn't cry freely, so she grabbed Chu Xiao and said a few words, then hurried away with Xie Yingmian.
After returning to Prince Ling's Mansion, she immediately changed back into Aunt Shuangjiang's clothes.
After doing all this, it was time to return to the palace.
After the Queen left.
Xie Yingmian immediately found Yu Lingye and shared the important information that the Queen told her with Yu Lingye.
After hearing this, Yu Lingye's expression became serious.
"I also know about the emperor's assassination."
"What was announced at the time was that, at the critical moment, the eunuch beside the emperor threw his whisk and hit the assassin. The assassin lost his chance and was captured by the guards, and the emperor escaped danger."
“No one doubts whether this is true or not.”
"I didn't expect that the truth would be like this."
Xie Yingmian held his chin and sighed deeply: "Aye, I suddenly have a not very reliable guess."
"Do you think the emperor has countless substitutes?"
"Kill him every time, and a replacement will die."
"He has a hundred doubles, and we have to kill him a hundred and one times before we can kill him."
Yu Lingye: In the past, he would say absolutely that such a thing would never happen.
But, he is no longer the innocent person he used to be.
He was seriously considering the possibility.
"Did Suisui and Qinghuang feel anything?"
Xie Yingmian: "That's the problem!"
"Qing Huang and Sui Sui didn't feel anything."
"Sui Sui hypnotized the emperor once and didn't notice anything unusual. If the queen hadn't mentioned it, I wouldn't have known there was something strange about the emperor."
"Right now, I'm more inclined to believe that the emperor has a Gu similar to the Du'e Gu."
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