Chapter 109: Heartless
Naturally the Queen had to come when she heard the news about the Queen Mother. After all, she was the daughter-in-law. But when she arrived, the imperial doctors and servants were kneeling on the ground outside. Those who didn't know would have thought that the Queen Mother was dying. The Queen was unsure and turned around to ask Cuiyun what was going on. Cuiyun only heard that the Emperor and the Queen Mother were talking inside. She instinctively felt that these words were probably not good.
In fact, the queen didn't have to wait long outside, and Xuanyuan Ling came out after a while.
As soon as the Queen spoke, Xuanyuan Ling left without looking back. The Queen's face changed instantly. Generally speaking, he would rarely be so disrespectful to her in front of so many people. What did the Queen Mother say to the Emperor?
The queen really hated her mother-in-law, but she was helpless. The emperor was gone, but she couldn't leave. The empress dowager was sick, but she still had to take charge of the situation.
As a result, as soon as he entered the room, the Queen Mother scolded him: "You are all heartless people."
The queen pursed her lips and could not utter a word.
The servants at the back really wished there was a crack in the ground they could crawl into and never come out.
Xuanyuan Ling walked out of Shouxiang Palace alone. Zhao Hai didn't dare to get too close to him, but he couldn't be too far away either, for fear that he would not be able to hear the emperor calling him.
Xuanyuan Ling didn't think of calling anyone at this moment, he just walked, walking aimlessly.
Maybe it was because I mentioned it that I recalled all the little things from my childhood.
It can be said that he had no childhood. After all, his personality was quite likable when he was a child, otherwise the late emperor would not have visited him again and again when he was ill. In fact, his thoughts at that time were quite simple.
Seeing that the Empress Dowager, who was then Concubine Zhen, was happy to see the late emperor, he was indoctrinated to please him day by day. In fact, he did not think that Concubine Zhen was abnormal. He even felt that such a mother-son relationship was very normal. It was just that he always thought about his mother when he was a child. He could only say hello to Concubine Zhen when the late emperor came. Even if he felt uncomfortable, he was happy to ask Concubine Zhen to coax him.
Things probably changed when he was old enough to go to the study room. He met the other brothers and realized that there was something wrong with the way he got along with Concubine Zhen.
The most obvious ones are the Fifth Prince and Concubine Shu.
Concubine Shu was really good to the Fifth Prince. Her kindness came from the bottom of her heart, which was completely different from Concubine Zhen's. The Fifth Prince was in good health and never fell ill from time to time. He also loved to act naughty, but Concubine Shu never spoke coldly to him. For a while, he even secretly watched them get along with each other.
He was so envious that he wanted to go back and find Zhenpin to get close to her. However, Zhenpin was just studying the new silk and talking about what kind of clothes she wanted to make. She said she was very busy and had no time to pay attention to him.
After the first chapter, there was the second and the third. Xuanyuan Ling didn’t know after which chapter he lost his former longing and his temperament gradually turned cold.
He also began to abide by the rules, knew how to protect himself, and gradually saw clearly the situation in the palace. His brothers were all eyeing that high position.
He had ambitions since he was very young, but that ambition was mostly to gain power. Let Concubine Zhen see that he was not just sick to coax the late emperor to see this value.
Later, his brilliance began to show.
A mother should be happy because her son has made her famous, but one day she gave him a bowl of sweet soup, and he was poisoned.
Xuanyuan Ling watched her cry and ask the late emperor to find out who had harmed him, and then watched other strangers in the harem being executed. In fact, he was not clueless at that time, but there was a voice in his heart telling him that his mother probably thought he was too aggressive, so she suppressed him to protect him.
After all, Empress Jingxian was indeed very resourceful at that time. She was so resourceful that she had all the concubines in the previous emperor's harem under her control, and no prince could surpass her crown prince.
After the prince was deposed early because of his outstanding talents, Xuanyuan Ling told himself more and more that he should not show off his talents too much, and then he began to hide his talents.
This hiding lasted for several years.
He entered the court and started to work. Concubine Zhen became Empress Zhen. In the struggles between the previous dynasty and the harem, the princes were reduced one by one until the death of Empress Jingxian. The prince's party finally came to an end, but other open and secret struggles had just begun.
It was not until the crown prince's party fell and the fastest jumpers became disgusting to the late emperor that he slowly appeared in everyone's sight. Soon, he gained his own prestige in the court.
At this time he realized that someone was trying to harm Concubine Zhen. After all, he and King Jing were on equal terms at the time. He simply took action first and used the method he was most familiar with since he was a child. He made the Queen Mother at the time discover an insignificant thing she had done over the years. Naturally, she could not refute it and fell out of favor.
Her fall from favor did give him a respite, and his display of weakness made King Jing think he had a sure win, but in the end he could not escape the fate of being the first to stick his head out.
In the end, he ascended to the throne.
When he got to this point, he suddenly wanted to go see Concubine Zhen.
When Concubine Zhen knew that he had become the emperor, she only said one good thing: "You are indeed worthy of being my son."
Just this one sentence.
Then in the next sentence she started mentioning the Chen family.
Thinking of this, he stopped and looked up again, and saw the plaque of Zhaohua Palace.
How did you get here?
Xuanyuan Ling didn't know how he got here, but he didn't plan to turn around and leave, so he walked in.
Chen Qing was playing mahjong with Chunhua Fangyun and Wang Lu at the moment. She liked it these days. When she was playing with great enthusiasm, Wang Lu saw Xuanyuan Ling first and knelt on the ground: "Your Highness."
Chen Qing was facing away from him, and when he turned around, there was still a look of disbelief on his face. He left this morning, and it was not even time for lunch yet.
But I knew something was wrong with his expression the moment I saw it. Why was he so upset?
She pretended not to notice and hid the mahjong in her hand shyly: "I am playing mahjong, does Your Majesty want to play?"
As she spoke, she had already walked up to Xuanyuan Ling, and took his sleeve and pulled it, then said with a smile: "It's very fun. I thought of it to kill time. The emperor might even praise me after he has fun."
Xuanyuan Ling asked her to act like a spoiled child, and when he saw her face without any gloom, he unconsciously asked her to take him over and sit down.
Then Shen Qing began to introduce how to play this.
She spoke carefully and paused after each rule, as if she was checking to see if Xuanyuan Ling understood. Xuanyuan Ling was absent-minded at first, but she looked at him eagerly as if she really wanted him to learn this thing. It was obvious that she had thought of it herself, just like the shuttlecock at the beginning, and she was going to show off her treasure in front of him again.
Xuanyuan Ling unconsciously began to listen carefully, and his attention naturally shifted to the mahjong game.
After listening to Shen Qing's explanation of all the rules, he looked at Chunhua Fangyun and the others: "Is this how you usually play?"
The sun is rising.
Shen Qing thought that it would be good if the sun was up, there was always hope.
Her smile became brighter: "It's just to kill time when you have nothing to do. Your Majesty, please try it. But you have to play with money, otherwise it won't be fun."
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