Chapter 120 Wounds are always easily aggravated
Anhe shook her head and said with pity, "They are our family's juniors after all. We also feel sorry for these children. They are so young to come to the palace to serve the Empress. Last time they came to our house to serve tea, we saw the burns on their arms. Alas, they are so pitiful."
"Tell me, in this palace, besides Your Majesty, who else has servants like this? I was thinking of taking the child in a couple of days to find him a good job, but who would have thought..."
An He said this, but his eyes were still fixed on Zhou Mingxi's expression.
He then saw, as he had hoped, that Zhou Mingxi's forced smile shattered.
"Well, that's really unfortunate. Eunuch An can't just say that a little eunuch has an injury because he's from my palace, can he?"
Zhou Mingxi's eyes held a ferocity he himself didn't even realize.
"With so many people under Eunuch An, there's bound to be some bad things happening. Why don't you go and see if your senior eunuchs are bullying the weak and fearing the strong?"
Anhe smiled: "The Empress Dowager is right."
Zhou Mingxi's heartbeat slowed down a bit.
Then Zhou Mingxi heard An He say, "But I don't want to. I think it's the Empress Dowager."
Zhao Liangxu couldn't help but laugh out loud.
Anhe gave her another unfriendly look.
Not only could he sit quietly and watch the play, but he also had to laugh out loud to interrupt his train of thought.
Regardless of Zhou Mingxi's reaction, An He said directly, "Your Majesty, stop hiding it. I've been in the palace longer than you have. Do you think I don't know where that little eunuch came from? Your Majesty is quite bold. Since others call me 'Nine Thousand Years Old,' you should know a lot about what's going on in the palace. There are always people from my family keeping an eye on things."
Anhe dismissed the group of servants.
"It seems that Her Majesty is used to being muddle-headed. She has only gained a little benefit from outside the palace, so she is eager to provoke us. Although you and General Zhou are not from the same lineage, you two are quite similar under the surname Zhou. You are both extremely stupid."
It was one thing for Zhou Feng to openly provoke him, but Zhou Mingxi, who was restricted in every way in the palace, still gave him a mysterious note to push him out of the city.
Seeing An He's attitude and mocking, contemptuous expression, Zhou Mingxi knew perfectly well that An He was doing it on purpose.
He had already analyzed the situation clearly, yet he still came to her palace to provoke her like this!
Zhou Mingxi simply stopped pretending. She patted Kai Fang's hand that was supporting her, stood up on her own, and said, "Since Eunuch An already knows, what's the point of wasting his breath on me like this?"
She paced around the room, then suddenly overturned a porcelain vase placed to the side with her sleeve.
"Am I stupid? Do I think I'm that stupid?"
Zhou Mingxi's voice was shrill, and his emotions were turbulent.
Anhe frowned as she watched Zhou Mingxi slowly get up from the couch, walk to the side in a daze, and then suddenly become excited and overturn the ornaments in the hall.
It was as if hearing those few cracking sounds could alleviate her inner anger and unease.
Anhe did not dodge, and if Zhou Mingxi wanted to cause trouble, there would be people around to stop Zhou Mingxi for Anhe.
After she vented her anger, Anhe made sarcastic remarks from the side: "There are Buddha statues and Bodhisattvas in Yu Yue Palace, but the Empress's temperament is becoming more and more insane day by day. How can she be a good Empress Dowager?"
Zhou Mingxi turned her head: "My son is the emperor. Do you want to depose me, the empress dowager? I am your master too!"
Anhe glanced at him and said, "What do you think?"
"Our family can not only cripple you, but also..."
The words were left unsaid, but one can imagine what outrageous and treasonous things were to come.
"Your Majesty, you should save your breath. Answer my question properly, and your life might be a little easier from now on," Anhe's voice carried a hint of guidance. "Your Majesty, do you think I would let this go so easily after I suffered a sword wound from an assassin and still managed to live a good life?"
Zhou Mingxi pointed at An He, his finger trembling: "You!"
"You treacherous eunuch!"
Anhe accepted the title with a clear conscience: "Anyway, the Empress Dowager isn't exactly a benevolent empress dowager, so scolding us like this doesn't really have any deterrent effect."
He tried to lean back in a more haughty pose, but accidentally aggravated his wound.
It has only been a few days since he woke up from his coma, and it is fortunate that his injury was not to his arm or leg, so he can pretend to be as carefree as he is now.
It was just to make those who wanted him dead calm down.
He looks fine now, but he's actually still struggling.
Anhe didn't want to waste any more time talking to Zhou Mingxi: "Your Majesty, stop dawdling. Tell me how you and Zhou Feng got together."
"If you don't tell us, our family won't be soft-hearted."
Zhou Mingxi hated the smug eunuch in front of him.
He was nothing but a lackey; once he gained power, he forgot the master he had served before!
Back then, we didn't punish him severely enough.
Zhou Mingxi was furious, but ultimately he was no match for An He's threat.
She had seen Anhe's methods before, and she still wanted to live a good life. Even being an empress dowager with little power was better than being a useless or dead person.
"Don't you already know? What else do I need to say?" Zhou Mingxi was trembling with anger just now, but now that she had calmed down, Fang Shi stepped forward and helped her to the couch.
"I really want to know, Your Majesty, while you're staying quietly in the palace, how far have you gone in your collusion with Zhou Feng? Does Your Majesty intend to drag your own son off the throne?"
Given Zhou Feng's ambition, An He didn't think that if Zhou Feng's scheme succeeded, he would let others overpower him.
Just as Zhou Mingxi had calmed down a bit, he became unwilling again after hearing An He's words: "Of course I want Ying'er to be the emperor!"
That way, she could continue to be the Empress Dowager.
To be a truly powerful empress dowager!
Instead of being constantly restrained and tormented by this hateful eunuch because of some trivial matter from years ago!
They put her in this position, but she's living a much worse life than when she was a concubine!
Zhou Mingxi wanted to glare at An He, but quickly looked away.
Just now, Anhe said that as long as she speaks out, she can still live.
As long as he lives, the eunuch will die before Ying'er grows up.
"It's just that the servants are doing well. With a little money, they can always get a chance to send a letter into the palace. Zhou Feng happens to know my brother, so he wants to use my position in the palace to get me to cooperate in something," Zhou Mingxi said simply.
"Now that Eunuch An has come to me, you should have already investigated all of this. What else is there to ask?"
Since she confessed honestly, what does Anhe mean by "the days will be better from now on"?
She should still be the Empress Dowager. No matter how powerful Anhe is, she wouldn't dare to touch the Emperor's birth mother at will.
Zhou Mingxi still had this matter on his mind.
"Did you send both notes?"
Each one was a lure to get him out of the city.
"Yes, but that was just something Zhou Feng asked me to do. How could I, a palace servant, meddle in court affairs? He just said it would be beneficial."
Zhou Mingxi was unaware of any benefits involved; she simply felt that Zhao Liangxu should have died at An He's hands.
Even an ordinary man would find infidelity difficult to tolerate, let alone a eunuch who is even more concerned about such matters...
She thought it was better that Zhao Liangxu was dead, so that Anhe wouldn't be able to deceive Li Ying completely, and then there would be another Zhao Liangxu to share Li Ying's trust in her.
If she wants to be a good Empress Dowager, Ying'er... must be on her side.
Zhou Mingxi was still thinking.
Anhe asked several questions in succession, and Zhou Mingxi seemed to have become a completely different person, answering all the questions he knew.
Zhao Liangxu remained silent, but she observed Zhou Mingxi's behavior closely.
It seems that the Empress Dowager's mental state is very unstable.
Although the word "madness" is a bit too strong, Zhou Mingxi was sometimes irritable and sometimes pretending to smile. Even now, while answering An He's questions, she was actually immersed in her own world.
It was for this reason that Anhe went straight to Yuyue Palace.
Just a scare scare, and Zhou Mingxi had already sold Zhou Feng out.
Anhe got what she wanted to know, was in a good mood, and got up to leave.
Seeing that Anhe hadn't given any overly harsh orders, Zhou Mingxi almost breathed a sigh of relief.
She knew that she could still be a good empress dowager.
She had no choice; Zhou Feng had contacted her first. She hadn't actually done anything wrong, except for having Fang Shi keep an eye on An He and send messages out of the palace.
As for agreeing to Zhou Feng's request... who doesn't want power?
Her family was confiscated with a single, casual remark from the late emperor. After entering the palace, she only experienced privilege because the late emperor, who held power, bestowed upon her favor... and then easily lost it all.
Therefore, she really wanted to be a real empress dowager.
There's nothing wrong with that.
Now that she has revealed the information Anhe needs, she feels that she has done nothing wrong.
Zhou Mingxi was still immersed in the joy of surviving the ordeal.
Anhe walked to the door, remembered something, and instructed: "There are still too many people in Yuyue Palace. Only keep Fangshi and arrange for the rest to go elsewhere. As for the items in the Empress Dowager's room, no matter how many valuable things there are in the palace, they are not enough to show respect to the Empress Dowager. Put all those treasures back in the storeroom. Only keep one Buddha statue, which is enough for the Empress Dowager to calm her mind."
As for going out?
The Empress Dowager can simply focus on worshipping Buddha; there is no need for her to go out.
Anhe didn't really have a good reason to kill Zhou Mingxi, but he had many other methods.
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An He left Yu Yue Palace, and the contemptuous expression on his face immediately disappeared.
The expression of suppressed pain was replaced by one.
His wounds can't withstand this kind of abuse.
Anhe staggered a few steps, then forced himself back to his duty room. He summoned the imperial physician, who came to diagnose Anhe like a thief.
The imperial physician stroked his beard, looking troubled: "Your Highness, you should rest more."
"How could we not know? Just focus on the diagnosis and stop talking nonsense!" Anhe's face darkened.
Of course, he wouldn't show any signs of pain in front of the Empress Dowager. When the imperial physician was examining him, he could only force a smile and not let his expression become too ferocious.
But his wounds had only just begun to heal when he started walking around the palace, and he spent quite a while in Yu Yue's palace.
If you want to perform normal actions, the wound will inevitably be aggravated.
Anhe felt the cloth covering her wound was getting damp.
"Your Majesty, if you have no choice but to attend court and appear in public, you can at most take another dose of hemostatic medicine, but this is only a temporary measure. You still have to be careful with your wound."
Seeing that Anhe was about to curse again, Zhao Liangxu placed her hand on Anhe's thigh and pinched it hard.
Tell him to shut up.
Zhao Liangxu then instructed the imperial physician to inform Zhang Sheng of the hemostatic medicine before leaving.
They were so unreasonable even when facing a doctor.
Zhao Liangxu mentally complained about An He.
Anhe, on the contrary, obediently shut his mouth.
Or rather, it was because of financial hardship.
She...her hands were on her legs.
It's too close to the place Anhe wants to hide and escape from...
He had to shut up.
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