Chapter 523: The Princess Who Was Widowed Early (16)
"It's time to close the net." The little maid appeared quietly behind the princess.
She looked ordinary and was easily forgotten. If someone hadn't been paying attention to her movements, it would have been easy to think that she was just an ordinary maid. However, this ordinary maid was the hidden line of several factions in the palace.
Just as Shi Yi was about to get up, Song Weicheng took the initiative to stand up and bowed to her, saying, "Where are you going, princess?"
One was a newly widowed princess, and the other was a young and promising minister, which immediately attracted the attention of everyone in the hall. Even Emperor Rui was stroking his wine glass with interest, waiting for his next words. Although he was in a high position, he also learned from the eunuchs that there were rumors about these two people in Kyoto recently.
"I wonder if I can buy the princess a drink?" Song Weicheng stood in front of the table with a wine glass in his hand. He was upright and his eyes were open, which made people feel a little good about him. Everyone looked at the princess, wanting to know how she would respond.
Shi Yi was not rigid, and raised his glass to toast him from afar, "How about that?"
"The princess is really straightforward, I admire you." Song Weicheng finished the wine in his glass and took the initiative to invite, "I think the princess must feel bored in the palace. I wonder if I have the honor to accompany you for a walk to get rid of the alcohol?"
Emperor Rui clapped his hands and said, "Okay. I feel much more relieved to have you accompany the princess."
The ministers who supported the fifth prince did not expect that Emperor Rui would directly voice his support. They looked at the princess as if they were facing a great enemy, fearing that she would abduct Song Weicheng.
The people of the third prince's faction did not care about it, but instead had a sense of gloating. Shi Yi bowed
to Emperor Rui and walked down the steps, looking at Song Weicheng with a smile, "Then I'll leave it to you, Lord Song."
"No trouble, no trouble, it's my honor." Song Weicheng walked out with a red face, looking like a little man who didn't know much about the world.
Emperor Rui looked at the two of them and felt more and more satisfied.
One was a senior official he had trained for his future successor, and the other was the child he cared about most among all his children. It would be the best if they could be together.
In a place where no one could see, Gu Changfeng gritted his teeth fiercely. He had a hunch that Song Weicheng would be a great rival for him in the future.
After leaving the Qionglou Pavilion, Song Weicheng's face returned to normal. Seeing that the maid who reported the news to the princess also came out, he approached her inconspicuously, and then knocked her out with a knife.
"What are you doing!" Shi Yi was a little angry, "You went too far today. You made trouble again and again. What do you want to do!"
"Princess, calm down." Song Weicheng said this, but he dragged the maid into the dark grass with incredible speed.
"She is mine." There were many guards patrolling here. Fearing being discovered, Shi Yi was forced to keep sentry for him, and his eyes were patrolling around.
Song Weicheng noticed her actions and reminded her, "Today, a master is setting up a trap." Fearing that she would be too clever, he added, "The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind."
Shi Yi's pupils dilated for a moment, "You mean..." "Empress Dowager..." After a long pause, she finally said these two words.
Song Weicheng nodded. If he hadn't investigated this palace maid long ago, he would have been fooled.
"No wonder she didn't come to the banquet today." She muttered to herself, and then thought of something, looking at the knocked-out palace maid, "Is she the Empress Dowager's spy?"
Song Weicheng nodded again, "She was bribed as soon as she entered the palace. Later, you helped her family many times. The Empress Dowager noticed it and deliberately arranged for her to get close to you. If you go today, you will definitely be involved. The ministers of the Fifth Prince's faction and the Shufei family will definitely target you for the rest of your life."
"In that case, let's just stand by tonight and see who she finds to be the witness." Shi Yi laughed in anger. She didn't expect that the Empress Dowager would even want to count her in.
Song Weicheng looked at her, "Since the moonlight is just right tonight, why don't we enjoy the scenery along this palace road together."
Zhaohua Palace.
"Has the eldest princess gone?" The empress dowager gently fiddled with the sandalwood in the incense burner. In the middle of the night, her makeup and hair were more exquisite than in the daytime.
The serving female official arranged her shoulders and replied, "Reporting to the empress dowager, the eldest princess has left the Qionglou Pavilion."
"It seems that the good show is about to begin." She gently shook off the sandalwood ash on her armor, with a light smile on her lips, "I can't wait."
The female official took advantage of her good mood and asked a question that she had never been able to understand, "Empress Dowager, we have never had any grudges with the fifth prince and the eldest princess. Why?" She made a gesture to kill them all.
The Empress Dowager covered her mouth and chuckled, "You are still young, it is normal that you don't understand."
The female official was even more confused by what she said, and she defended herself, "Empress Dowager, I am not young anymore, I am already thirty-six."
"So you are so old now, I thought it was more than twenty years ago when the late emperor was still alive." The Empress Dowager's eyes showed nostalgia. The late emperor, he was the best man to her in her life. When
the female official heard the word "late emperor", she was already trembling with fear. In the whole palace, everyone knew that the late emperor was a taboo for the Empress Dowager. Fortunately, the Empress Dowager was in a good mood today, and she brought up the topic herself. "Emperor Rui has taken a fancy to the Fifth Prince, so naturally he wants to train him more. But if the news of a prince who has touched concubines gets out, it will not only ruin his future, but also Emperor Rui's face."
Her eyes revealed the murderous intent accumulated from being in a high position for a long time. "Emperor Rui is strong and not obsessed with beauty. It looks like he can last many more years. I'm an old woman in my twilight years, and I don't want to compete with him. But this child has a biggest problem, which is that he doesn't listen to me. It reminds me of his equally annoying mother. I have always been kind and gentle, but I hate it most when others go against my good intentions. Everything I do is for their own good."
The female official almost lowered her head to the ground, fearing that she would vent her accumulated anger on herself.
The Queen Mother saw that the female official was trembling all over, and she felt better. She continued to say to herself: "I am doing this to help the Emperor Rui. A person whose husband has died, a prince who is so daring that he rebels, and a concubine who is ambitious and wants to ascend to the throne, should not continue to live in the world."
"It is right for the three of them to fall into my hands today. They are all hypocritical. I hope that after they understand everything, they can go to the underground to see the late emperor and tell him that I am alive and well." She broke the armor she had carefully maintained, and her expression was almost crazy.
(End of this chapter)
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