Chapter 134 Rescue 2 It turns out that the girl still trusts Xie Wuhen so much? ...
The queen got up at the beginning of the morning hour every day, washed up, and went to the courtyard to tend to the flowers and plants.
But that day, it was past three quarters past the hour of Mao, and there was no movement in the Queen's bedroom. Nanny Qing felt something was wrong and tried to go into the bedroom to wake up the Queen.
As soon as he entered the hall, he found the queen's already stiff body.
The queen died in a very tragic way, with her limbs black and purple and blood oozing from all her orifices.
The imperial physician examined the body and concluded that it was poisoned.
The emperor finally arrived at Kunning Palace, but he remained in his sedan chair, which was still draped with the same curtain. Through the curtain, he instructed the imperial physician, "Don't make the poisoning known."
The imperial physician bowed his head and replied, "I obey your order."
He then ordered: "Say that the queen died of an old illness."
The imperial physician replied again: "I obey your order."
The emperor said "hmm" and went back home.
He didn't even get off the sedan chair to take a look at the dead queen.
It seems that the person who died was not the mother of a country, but just a palace maid.
The fifth prince looked at his father's departing back and began to cry.
He has been helpless since he was old enough to understand things. He finally settled down in Kunning Palace, but now there are new changes. He doesn't know what to do.
Su He walked out from the porch, went to the little guy, and held him in her arms. "Don't cry, you still have your sister."
He added, "From now on, you and your sister will live in Huayang Palace."
The little man stopped crying and asked her, "Is it true?"
She nodded heavily: "Really."
The little man asked again: "Will my sister always be with me?"
Su He smiled slightly: "Don't worry, I will."
"Will my sister never change?"
"Of course it won't change."
The little man finally calmed down, sniffed, and looked in the direction of the emperor's departing sedan chair. "But father has changed."
Su He asked, "Why has Father changed?"
The little guy pursed his lips sadly. "Father used to play chess with me and teach me to read, but now he doesn't even talk to me or even look at me."
Su He suddenly felt a little sad.
The current emperor is Bai Jinan in disguise and is controlled by Concubine Shu. Naturally, he has no time to pay attention to the little fifth prince.
She comforted the little guy: "Don't worry, father will change back to normal."
A light flashed in the little man's eyes: "When will it change back?"
Su He looked towards the dim sky and replied, "Soon."
I hope it will be soon, and I hope there is still a chance to "change" back.
Su He packed a few pieces of luggage for the fifth prince and brought him back to Huayang Palace.
Early the next morning, Xie Wuhen's carrier pigeon brought another message: "Ah?"
This time, Su He specially cut a piece of paper and wrote back: Rumors in the city caused the two palaces to fight each other, and the concubine poisoned the queen.
Then roll up the note, put it in the mailbox, and release the carrier pigeon.
The queen's funeral was simple, even crude.
The emperor and the concubine did not show up at all. The prince, princess and two other concubines led the court officials in a hasty ceremony and were then buried in the imperial mausoleum.
Taking advantage of the national mourning, Fang Yicheng secretly patrolled the palace, but found no trace of the real emperor.
He even used his excellent martial arts skills to search the Changle Palace inside and out, but found nothing except an empty secret room.
Fang Yicheng felt somewhat discouraged, thinking that the real emperor might have already been destroyed.
At this moment, he accidentally saw Concubine Shu walking alone in the corridor in the night with a palace lantern. She looked hurried, as if she was going somewhere in the palace.
She is the Empress Shufei who is in the emperor's favor. Even the so-called emperor has to obey her orders. How could she travel alone without even a maid?
Fang Yicheng became suspicious and followed quietly.
The night was so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face, and there was no one in sight.
The cold wind blew through the palace walls, making bursts of "whoosh" sounds from time to time.
The corridor became narrower and narrower, and more and more remote, until finally, she stopped in front of a vermilion lacquered gate.
Fang Yicheng had seen this place on a map before. This was the cold palace.
Concubine Shu instinctively looked around a few times, and after making sure that no one saw her, she pushed open the door and walked in.
Fang Yichen, who was hiding in the dark, also jumped and flew to the roof of the cold palace.
Shufei carried a palace lantern and walked through the courtyard and corridor of the cold palace, then pushed open a door.
She placed the palace lantern on the table at the door and turned to walk into the house.
The room was extremely narrow. There was nothing in it except a bed, a table and a chair. There was also a person lying on the bed, covered with a quilt.
In the dim light, the man moved and coughed twice.
Concubine Shu dragged the chair to the bed and sat down.
She glanced at the person on the bed, chuckled, then picked up a pear from the fruit bowl on the bedside table and took out a dagger from her sleeve.
She began to slowly peel the pear with a dagger, and said as she peeled: "I came here today to tell the emperor that your queen is dead. I killed her. I planted a spy in Kunning Palace and asked that spy to poison the queen's evening tea." After she finished speaking, she giggled, her laughter was comfortable and arrogant.
The emperor on the bed was furious and began to cough violently. After coughing, he stared at her: "You...you..." He could not say anything except the raging anger in his chest.
"What about me?" Concubine Shu glanced at him with disdain. "The emperor is now infected with cartilage powder. He can neither stand up nor speak. He is already a useless person. Don't struggle anymore. Just accept your fate."
A long section of the pear peel had been peeled off, and with a "pop" sound, the peel fell to the ground. She didn't care and continued peeling: "In fact, the person I wanted to kill at first was not the queen, but the fifth prince - everyone who blocked my son from becoming the prince. But then I thought, even if the fifth prince died, the queen could still adopt a child from the royal family. In this way, wouldn't I have to fight endlessly? It's better to just kill the queen and put it all to rest. Once the queen is dead, the fifth prince will no longer be a concern, and the Zhou family will lose hope. Maybe the Zhou family can become a helper to my son in the future." After she finished speaking, she giggled again.
The emperor's lips trembled and his eyes were filled with poison.
Concubine Shu stopped what she was doing and met his gaze calmly. "Why, Your Majesty, you still can't bear to part with that old hag? But regardless of whether Your Majesty is willing to part with her or not, the dead cannot be resurrected, and she has long since turned to dust in the ground."
Concubine Shu had already peeled the pear and handed it to the emperor: "Your Majesty, it's time for you to eat the pear."
The emperor was unable to move and could not eat the pear.
Concubine Shu had stood up from the chair, walked to the bed, and then pressed the peeled pear hard on the emperor's mouth, causing the emperor to turn his head and struggle, crying "wuwu".
The juice from the pear was all over the emperor's face.
Concubine Shu gnashed her teeth and said, "I have served you for many years, trusted you for many years, and endured humiliation in this harem for many years. My only wish was for my son to become the crown prince, but you lied to me, deceived me, and betrayed me. You broke your promise and betrayed me. Your fate today is what you sowed."
The emperor was struggling and coughing, and was about to suffocate.
But Concubine Shu suddenly let go of him and threw the juicy pear into the fruit bowl beside her.
The emperor finally caught his breath.
After a violent coughing fit, he stared at her and began to say, "You...you..."
Concubine Shu took out a handkerchief and slowly wiped her hands: "Although Bo'er has long wanted to kill you to eliminate future troubles, I am not in a hurry. I must spare your life so that you can see with your own eyes how Bo'er becomes the crown prince and how he replaces you."
As she spoke, she used the handkerchief she had used to wipe her hands to wipe the emperor's mouth: "Look at how miserable you are now. Who would have thought that you, the most noble man in Daliang, would end up like this. Look here," she stretched out her hand and pointed around the room: "This is the cold palace, the palace where you deal with concubines who have fallen out of favor. Now you, an emperor, are imprisoned here. It's really ridiculous. Who could have thought of it? Who could have thought of it." After she finished speaking, she began to giggle again.
The emperor gritted his teeth and tears welled up in his eyes.
Concubine Shu had turned around and walked out of the house, saying as she walked, "Don't worry, after you witness my Bo'er become the crown prince with your own eyes, I will definitely let you go to the underworld to see that old hag." After she said that, she walked out with the palace lantern and closed the door behind her.
The room darkened and became quiet, with only the emperor's incessant coughing and groaning remaining.
Fang Yicheng on the roof heard every word that Concubine Shu said. He clenched his fists secretly, turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
Fang Yicheng quickly returned to Huayang Palace and reported everything he had learned to Su He.
Su He could never have imagined that Concubine Shu would hide the emperor in the cold palace without a sound.
Fang Yicheng also sighed: "She really is so bold."
Su He breathed a sigh of relief: "Fortunately, the emperor is still alive."
Fang Yicheng asked: "Should we go and rescue the emperor now?"
Su He thought for a moment and shook his head: "It seems that the cold palace is unguarded, but in fact, the entire palace is under the control of Concubine Shu. If we act rashly now, we will endanger the emperor's life."
He asked, "What are you going to do, girl?"
Su He asked back, "Are you sure the emperor was poisoned by 'cartilage powder'?"
Fang Yicheng nodded: "Yes, that's what Concubine Shu said."
She thought for a moment, then turned and took out a palm-sized medicine bag from the wooden cabinet. "Take this antidote to the cartilage powder and deliver it to the emperor when no one is paying attention. Take it once a day for four days and the poison will be eliminated."
Fang Yicheng nodded and asked, "What happens after the poison is detoxified?"
Su He looked troubled. "We can't let anyone know there are two emperors in this palace. Otherwise, even if we capture Bai Jin'an and restore the true emperor to the throne, others will question whether this emperor is real or fake. If that happens, the court will be in turmoil and trouble from now on." She took a deep breath and said, "Let's talk about it after I send a message to Xie Wuhen tomorrow."
Fang Yicheng lowered his head and remained silent for a moment.
After a moment, he suddenly asked, "So the girl still trusts Xie Wuhen so much?"
Su He answered calmly: "Now that he and I are allies, I naturally have to trust him."
Fang Yicheng couldn't hide the disappointment on his face. He clasped his fists and bowed, "May your belief be worth it." He paused and said, "It's getting late. If there's nothing else, I'll go back to my room and rest."
Su He smiled slightly: "Okay, then go and rest quickly."
He said "hmm" and turned to walk out of the palace.
Zhang Xiuhua looked at his back and whispered, "What's wrong with Yicheng? He seems unhappy all of a sudden?"
Su He made up an excuse: "He might be anxious to rescue the emperor."
She knew why he was unhappy, but she couldn't comfort him.
The current situation is complicated and she really can't care about these romantic matters.
The next morning, Xie Wuhen's carrier pigeon arrived as promised. The note still had the same content, but with two more words: How are you today?
Su He wrote back: The emperor is living in the cold palace and urgently needs rescue.
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