"Li Dequan, let them all leave. You can come with me and take a walk around. I've been very annoyed lately."
Eunuch Li has served the emperor for so long, so of course he knows why the emperor has been in trouble recently.
That incident had been quite a big deal back then. In reality, the Emperor's dislike for the Empress wasn't solely due to Lou Zhuxin's words; Jiang Ji had intended to treat Bai Mian with respect. The final straw that broke Jiang Ji's heart was his unearthed private correspondence between the Empress and her family, most of which focused on supporting the eldest prince and establishing him as the Crown Prince.
The emperor was furious and punished the queen by not allowing her to leave Qiwu Palace without Zhao for the rest of her life.
Li Dequan said after careful consideration, "Your Majesty, the Empress has been ill for a long time. Why don't you go and see her? I heard that even an imperial physician can't be found. Even though the Empress was able to communicate with the family back then, it's been so long. After all, she is the mistress of the imperial palace!"
Jiang Ji stopped and asked, "Li Dequan, do you understand me very well?"
Li Dequan quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "I dare not!"
Jiang Ji has never been in charge of the affairs of Qiwu Palace over the years, but he has never treated the Queen badly. He just kept her under house arrest and never deducted her salary. How could he not even be able to hire an imperial physician? Unless someone was secretly manipulating her.
Lou Zhuxin's face suddenly flashed in Jiang Ji's mind.
Is it Xin'er?
Jiang Ji quickly ignored this thought. He and Lou Zhuxin had known each other since they were young, and she was not the kind of petty and vicious woman.
Who could that be?
Jiang Ji continued to walk forward, "Hurry up and catch up!"
Li Dequan stood up and followed him: "Hey—"
"...Find a royal physician to see the queen."
Li Dequan lowered his eyes: "Yes."
When they were halfway there, they suddenly ran into Yu Ma from the Cining Palace.
Nanny Yu looked worried and knelt down when she saw the emperor. "Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Please go see the Queen Mother. She is seriously ill..."
Jiang Ji quickly asked her to get up and turned to walk towards the Cining Palace.
The current emperor is actually not the empress dowager's biological child. When the retired emperor was in power, Jiang Ji was just a prince born to a concubine. A concubine was not qualified to raise her own child by her side, so he was raised by the empress dowager, who was then the Defei, and the mother-son relationship was quite strong.
After Jiang Ji ascended the throne, he respected the Queen Mother even more, and the Queen Mother also made many plans for him regarding the throne.
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Kunning Palace.
Lou Zhuxin got up early and prepared breakfast, all of which were Jiang Ji's favorites.
She sat at the dining table, the smile on her lips harder to suppress than AK. No matter how busy he was, Jiang Ji would come to her for breakfast after the morning court.
Which concubine in the palace wouldn’t be envious?
Lou Zhuxin ordered her personal maid Fanglan: "Fanglan, go outside and take a look. The emperor should be arriving soon."
Fanglan responded: "Yes."
After waiting for a long time, Fanglan was shivering with cold outside the house, but Eunuch Li showed up.
Eunuch Li looked embarrassed. If the Emperor didn't know, how could he not know? This Imperial Concubine Zhu was a difficult person to deal with, as could be seen from her unwavering favor over the years.
"I am conveying the Emperor's order, asking me to inform the Imperial Concubine that the Emperor will not be coming to Kunning Palace for breakfast today. I ask the Imperial Concubine to eat well and that the Emperor will come to accompany her when he is free."
Fang Lan's face was not good either. "Okay, please trouble Eunuch Li. I will report to the Imperial Concubine."
The curtain of the main hall was drawn aside, and Lou Zhuxin came out angrily, "No need to report to me, I know everything."
When Eunuch Li saw Concubine Zhu, he knelt down and saluted her, "Your servant greets the Concubine."
Lou Zhuxin didn't let him get up, but instead asked, "Why didn't the emperor come to Kunning Palace?"
Li Dequan answered honestly, "The Emperor heard on the way that the Empress Dowager was not feeling well, so he went to the Cining Palace to visit her."
Lou Zhuxin looked up in surprise, with a bad feeling in her heart.
"Eunuch Li, you've made a long journey. It's snowing heavily, so hurry up and get up!"
Li Dequan felt relieved. This imperial concubine was really something. She had one face in front of the emperor and another face to others.
"Thank you, Noble Concubine. I will take my leave now. The Emperor is waiting for me to return and report."
"Let's go!"
Lou Zhuxin returned to the inner hall with an unhappy look on her face. "Come here, tell the Imperial Hospital to stop involving me in the Empress Dowager's affairs."
Aunt Liu stepped back and said, "Yes."
Lou Zhuxin got angry when she saw the table full of food.
"Clatter—"
She pushed all the food to the ground.
"Oh~" Li Dequan, who had not walked far, heard the noise behind him, shrugged his shoulders and sighed.
Xiao Fuzi beside him was puzzled, "Godfather, why are you sighing?"
Li Dequan patted his head with the whisk in his hand, "Don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask."
"yes."
Li Dequan continued walking forward, and he suddenly remembered the Queen's lenient attitude towards others when he first entered the palace.
How could such a good person end up like this!
The Queen was truly confused about the correspondence back then! The eldest prince was the only prince, so why would he discuss the throne when he had nothing better to do?
However, Li Dequan always felt that the emperor would regret it one day. This could be seen from the emperor's restlessness in the past few days, and he would also be frightened by the cruel heart of his most beloved partner.
Everyone in the palace knew Concubine Zhu's true temperament, and only the emperor was kept in the dark by her.
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Cining Palace, inside the bedroom.
When Nanny Yu went to see the emperor just now, Jiang Qiao had already told her about Yu Guanyin's speculation, and the empress dowager also knew what to do.
The white-haired old woman was lying on the bed. She held Jiang Qiao and Jiang Yanchuan's hands tightly, and her voice was hoarse as it should be for someone of her age.
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