Chapter 260 The Queen Mother and the Regent Who Became a Cat 22
After the conversation in the study that day, Cha Jiu really stopped being so harsh towards the little emperor.
She claimed to be ill and stayed indoors in Yongning Palace.
The little emperor was naturally very happy.
You don’t have to get up early to study every day, and you can enjoy your favorite food during meals.
At night, there is wine and meat, and with beautiful women by my side, the days are very fulfilling.
But as time went on, his laziness and stupidity gradually became apparent.
In the past, the empress dowager was in charge of the little emperor, so no matter how sleepy or tired he was, he had to attend the morning court on time.
But now that no one was controlling him, he became even lazier and was frequently late for the morning court sessions, leaving his ministers waiting for him.
The same is true today.
The court officials had been waiting for more than an hour. The little emperor came listlessly, yawning as he sat on the dragon chair. "What is the important matter today, my dear ministers?"
Someone stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, the Dongzhou area has suffered from a severe drought. There is no harvest, and there are starving people on the road. The people even have to trade their children for food. I ask Your Majesty to approve the opening of the warehouses to release grain and the allocation of funds for disaster relief."
Another person said, "I have a different opinion. The court has allocated funds for drought relief more than ten times this year, but the effect is minimal, and many people have used the funds to enrich themselves. I would like to ask Your Majesty to investigate the corruption before allocating funds."
One said to allocate funds first, the other said to investigate corrupt officials first.
The little emperor's head is really bigger than the others.
He subconsciously wanted to ask the Queen Mother beside him, but she said she was ill and could not go out.
He also allowed the Regent to stay at home.
For a moment, the little emperor was at a loss.
Fortunately, Duke Lin stepped forward in time and said that disaster relief was urgent and funds should be allocated first. He would also select fair and honest people to oversee the disaster relief money.
The court officials whispered to each other.
"They are fair and honest. The most greedy family is the Lin family."
"Alas, I hope Your Majesty is not mistaken."
Unfortunately, the young emperor agreed to Duke Lin's suggestion without even a second thought and quickly withdrew from the court and returned to the palace for breakfast.
Today’s meal included his favorite bird’s nest and green stem rice porridge, which was so delicious that he couldn’t forget it even after eating it for three days.
The court officials shook their heads and sighed.
As a result, half an hour later, the little emperor's meal was poisoned.
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Yongning Palace.
"Poisoned" When Cha Jiu heard the palace maid report this, his eyebrows raised and he was about to pull his wrist out of Zong Yue's hand.
"Don't move, there's still a little more to go." Zong Yue said.
Cha Jiu paused for a moment, then sat down obediently and stopped moving.
The palace maid who reported it took a curious look and her expression gradually became one of surprise.
The regent who used to be high and mighty, was now concentrating on applying nail polish to the Queen Mother with small wooden tweezers.
The rouge-red petals were spread on the nails, making the slender jade fingers look even more tender and white like green onions.
Zong Yue looked extremely serious, treating this small piece of nail as carefully as if it were a piece of his own country.
Cha Jiu held his chin with his other hand and looked at him, admiring his handsome and profound face while lazily urging him: "Hurry up, His Majesty has been poisoned."
Zong Yue was unmoved, and uttered ruthless words from his thin lips: "If you are not dead, it doesn't matter if you go later. He can wait, but Ran Kou Dan can't."
The palace maid wiped the sweat from her head.
The Prince Regent is probably the only one in the world who dares to say that His Majesty's safety is less important than giving the Queen Mother a gift.
Cha Jiu chuckled: "How arrogant."
Zong Yue paused and said: "If the Queen Mother doesn't like me, I can be more restrained and hypocritical."
Cha Jiu bent forward, leaned on his chest, and smiled so hard that her waist trembled slightly.
Zong Yue held her hand helplessly, his eyes were gentle and doting, he lowered his head and placed a kiss on the top of her head.
It was another half an hour later when Cha Jiu walked out of the Yongning Palace to visit the poisoned emperor.
The little emperor lay listlessly on the bed, feeling extremely anxious and wondering who was trying to harm him.
It was not until Cha Jiu came that his eyes lit up and he struggled to stand up and grab her.
"Queen Mother, save me! Someone in this palace is secretly trying to kill me!"
Although he resented Cha Jiu for indirectly killing his mother and hated her severity, he had to admit that in this treacherous harem, the only person he trusted who would not harm him and had the ability to find the murderer was Cha Jiu.
There is no other reason, the original body Lu Zhaoyu's upright character and loyalty to the royal family are too deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Cha Jiu calmly pulled back her hand and looked around at the palace maids: "Your Majesty was fine, how did you get poisoned?"
Her eyes were cold and her expression was sullen, and everyone fell to their knees in shock.
In the corner, a beautiful woman in a green palace dress lowered her head even more.
The imperial physician replied, "Your Majesty, the poison your Majesty was poisoned with was made from common herbs and is not very toxic. However, the poison was put into the green-stemmed rice porridge your Majesty eats every day, so the poison accumulated and broke out today."
Chajiu found the highlight: "Use it every day"
The little emperor lay down with a guilty conscience, not daring to look at Cha Jiu.
The royal family has always stipulated that the meal should not exceed three servings, that is, the same dish cannot be taken more than three times.
The purpose was to prevent someone with ulterior motives from finding out the emperor's private preferences and poisoning him.
The little emperor ate it for three days in a row.
Even the dumbest murderer would know which meal to pick to poison.
However, Cha Jiu had already said that he would not discipline him harshly anymore, so he did not bother to talk about it any more. Instead, he quickly sorted out his thoughts, sorted out the clues, and investigated the murderer.
Soon, the murderer was found out.
She is the young emperor's latest favorite in the harem, Concubine Lian.
The guards roughly brought the beautiful lady Lian, who was kneeling in the corner, to the front.
She was dressed in a green palace dress, her beauty was pure and otherworldly, yet she exuded a despairing air of death.
The little emperor obviously didn't expect that it was she who harmed him. He picked up the jade ruyi beside the bed and threw it at her, smashing her head and causing her to bleed.
"You bastard! I have been so kind to you, yet you actually poisoned me!"
After hearing his words, Lady Lian let out a strange laugh: "You are so kind to me, my foolish ruler. Who cares about your favor that is worthless?"
Everyone fell to the ground in silence, not daring to say a word.
Cha Jiu had heard of this beautiful lady Lian, who usually stayed at home and rarely went out, and did not like to compete for favors. If she met an injured bird on the road, she would take it back and take good care of it.
If a kind person does evil things, he must feel deeply wronged.
Sure enough, Lady Lian slowly recounted her painful experience.
The young emperor was obsessed with beauty and issued a secret order for all states to present their most beautiful women to the palace. Some inspectors, in order to improve their political achievements, forcibly abducted women from the people and sent them to the capital.
Lady Lian was one of them. Her father and brother died at the hands of soldiers while trying to protect her, and her mother died of illness due to grief.
The family was broken up.
But she had to suffer humiliation and be pampered by her enemy every day.
That's why she poisoned the green-stem rice porridge, wanting to avenge herself and her family.
"You tyrant, you are incompetent, lustful, and cruel to the people. How can you be worthy of being the ruler of this world?" Lady Lian glared at the little emperor, her eyes full of hatred.
The young emperor was so angry that he pulled out the knife from his guard and tried to kill her.
Lady Lian closed her eyes and waited for death, but the pain she had imagined never came upon her body.
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