Chapter 373 No Way Out
"You went to the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
“Yes.”
Xiao Jin looked at her in surprise, "You hate him so much, why do you still want to go?"
Su Ying said as a matter of course: "I saw his name on your list and went there."
Besides, she couldn't really say that she hated Su Yulun. She rarely hated anyone, because she usually took revenge on the spot.
"Is it for me?"
Su Ying was puzzled, "What? Is there a problem?"
Xiao Jin reached out and pulled her into his arms, rubbing his chin against her neck, "No."
"Why are you suddenly holding me? Let go. I want to eat."
Xiao Jin reluctantly let go of her hand, thinking that Su Ying had really done a lot for him. Even if she herself didn't feel anything, in his opinion, she was making concessions for him.
Lin Zhuyu held the food box and gave Xiao Jin a disgusted look. It was already this late and he was still pestering the Crown Princess. I wonder if the Crown Princess is hungry!
"Princess, please eat something first."
Lin Zhuyu put the food box on the table with a particularly loud "bang".
Xiao Jin frowned slightly and looked at Lin Zhuyu with even more displeasure.
How come you're still such an eyesore even after getting married?
Su Ying didn't notice the confrontation between the two at all, she just picked up her chopsticks and started eating.
As the night deepened, the palace fell into silence.
The Queen Mother was stabbed by the Horse King while trying to save Emperor Kangze in the chaos. With the treatment of the imperial physician, she finally woke up at night.
At that time, the King of Horse wanted to stab her to death with his sword, but the Queen Mother appeared too suddenly, and the sword deviated and stabbed her buttocks.
Although it was not a vital part, the King of Horses was ruthless and the Queen Mother's entire buttocks was almost pierced, and the situation was very dangerous at the time.
The overwhelming pain made the Queen Mother's face pale, but when she thought of the King of Horse's situation, the anxiety in her heart was more painful than the wound.
"The Queen Mother is awake, the Queen Mother is awake."
When the palace maid saw the empress dowager open her eyes, she immediately went outside the hall to call in the imperial physician.
The imperial physician hurried into the inner hall to check the empress dowager's pulse, "It's good that the empress dowager can wake up." If the person can wake up, there is basically nothing serious.
The maid poured a cup of warm water and walked forward, carefully helping the Queen Mother drink it.
After drinking it, the Queen Mother felt her dry throat felt much better.
"How is the emperor?" The first thing the empress dowager said was to inquire about Emperor Kangze's condition.
"Don't worry, Queen Mother. The Emperor woke up yesterday."
The Queen Mother automatically equated waking up with nothing happening.
"It's good that the emperor is alright, it's good that he is alright."
The palace maid brought in some rice soup and fed it to the empress dowager. However, the empress dowager was still too weak and soon felt sleepy and passed out in the blink of an eye.
When I woke up again, it was pitch black all around.
The Queen Mother felt uncomfortable with a dry and itchy throat and wanted to call the palace maid in to serve her, but as soon as she moved, she saw a dark shadow sitting on a chair not far away.
The Queen Mother was startled, and before she could say anything, she saw the other person's appearance clearly.
"Rayle?"
Hearing the voice, the figure slowly raised his head and glanced in the direction of the Queen Mother. It was this glance that allowed the Queen Mother to see clearly his eyes hidden in the darkness, like a poisonous snake.
"The Queen Mother is awake."
The horse king spoke in a low voice.
The Queen Mother's heart was in her throat. She thought that the Prince of Ma had escaped from the palace after that night, but she didn't expect that he was still in the palace. He was so brave!
“You, you…” The Queen Mother hardly dared to make any sound, for fear that any noise would be discovered by the palace maids about the presence of the Horse King.
"Why are you still in the palace? Are you crazy?"
The Horse King stood up, the thin moonlight shining on him seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.
"Mother, at this point, I have no way out."
The Queen Mother's eyes turned red when she called out "Mother". Old memories came flooding back to her like a tide. Tears welled up in her eyes and she tightly grasped the Horse King's hand.
Back then, who could have thought that the retired emperor would snatch the fiancée of his subject? The empress dowager was engaged to the eldest son of the mighty general's mansion at the age of thirteen. The two were in love and had been childhood sweethearts. The empress dowager even gave her most precious thing to her fiancé on her fifteenth birthday.
But she didn't expect that the emperor would take a fancy to her and let her enter the palace to become a concubine even at the cost of bearing the infamy.
She was already three months pregnant when she entered the palace. When the emperor learned about this, he was not angry. Instead, he asked her to give birth to the child and raised the child in the name of his father.
But the Queen Mother didn't trust him at all. After the child was born, she found a way to have the child taken out of the palace and used a dead baby to deceive the Emperor.
And the child who was sent away that year was the Horse King.
The queen mother hated the retired emperor and the royal aristocracy of Chu. If it weren't for them, her fiancé would not have been killed after she entered the palace.
Over the years, she has been hiding in the harem and constantly seeking favor from the retired emperor in order to consolidate her position and allow her to secretly help the King of Horse.
Prince Ma did not disappoint her. He soon found an opportunity to follow the generals to achieve great things and was appreciated by Emperor Kangze.
But when the sword in Prince Ma's hand was about to stab Emperor Kangze, the Queen Mother suddenly hesitated, because Emperor Kangze was also her biological son.
"Rui'er, the Grand Master's lineage is doomed now. How can you, alone, trip up Xiao Jin, who has become the Crown Prince? You should take Chen'er and leave. Once you leave the capital and return to your fiefdom, I promise that no one will embarrass you."
How could the Horse King be willing to give up now?
"Mother, do you want me to be controlled by them for the rest of my life like my father was? Now that things have come to this, I might as well give it a try. You must help me."
The Queen Mother looked at Prince Ma's determined eyes full of ambition that could not be concealed, and her heart gradually sank to the bottom.
"How can you be so confused!" Even though she is now the queen mother, she doesn't think there is anything good about being in a high position. The higher you stand, the stronger the wind you face, and not everyone can withstand it.
The horse king's eyes were fierce, "If mother won't help me, then I will do it myself. If I die, mother, you don't have to collect my body. Just let me rot in this dark palace."
"Your princess, your son, you don't care about it anymore?"
“They know what I’m going to do.”
How could the Queen Mother just watch him die?
"You want mother...how can I help you?" After a long silence, the empress dowager spoke with difficulty.
In the darkness, the horse king's eyes gradually turned red, "What if Xiao Jin is the crown prince? I will definitely make him fall into an irretrievable situation. Mother, you only need to..."
The Queen Mother half closed her eyes and listened to what the Horse King said. Her breathing gradually became rapid.
After that, the horse king grabbed the queen mother's hand and said, "Mother, you will definitely help me, right?"
The Queen Mother's eyes trembled, and finally she gritted her teeth and nodded.
There was a hint of triumph in the horse king's eyes, "I knew that the person my mother loved the most would always be me."
(End of this chapter)
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