Chapter 94

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date="2021-09-03"

title="Chapter 94"

weight="134585"

series = ["The Tyrant’s Beloved Empress"]

mode = "manual"

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Xiao Zhige's biological mother, Li's concubine, was originally just a chosen beauty. Because of his exuberant appearance and being good at dancing, he was favored by Emperor Anqing. However, this doting did not last long. Later, when Xiao Zhige was born, there was a bad omen. Li concubine died to save him, but the mother and son also lost the love of the emperors from then on.

Later, at the age of nine, Xiao Zhige went to Chunshan Palace with Emperor Anqing for autumn hunting. when she came back, the queen said that Li concubine could not bear the loneliness of the cold palace and died.

It was taboo for concubines to kill themselves in the palace. The queen hastily buried the body, and he did not even see the mother's concubine for the last time.

He also doubted the queen's words and refused to believe that the mother princess would choose to abandon him. And how could it be such a coincidence that something happened when they were not in the palace?

But then he checked again and again, but did not find the slightest doubt.

Now Shu Ling stopped this remark, but it aroused the doubt that he once hid in the bottom of his heart.

The atmosphere in the hall was calm for a moment, and an Changqing looked anxiously at Xiao Zhige-in the memory of the previous life, he had not found out the story of Li's concubines.

Although Xiao Zhige was silent, hostility welled up between his eyebrows and eyes. Knowing that the purpose of this trip had been achieved, Shuling stopped and pretended to sigh.

"there is no proof of what you say. How can you be trusted by this king?" Xiao Zhige tried his best to maintain the expressionless appearance of his face, but his hand on his knee had been clenched into a fist.

Shu Linting sighed: "what happened in those days, the evidence has long been cleaned up.". I only knew about it by accident. If I hadn't been rescued by the king, I would have had a bad conscience, otherwise I wouldn't have found out this old story. "

"but." When he had made enough gestures, he said, "although I have no proof, there is one person who must know the truth."

An Changqing's eyelids suddenly jumped, and as soon as a person appeared in her heart, she stopped by Shu Ling and said, "if Prince doesn't believe what I say, he can go to the eldest princess for confirmation. She should know."

The eldest princess, Xiao Youxi.

The only daughter of Empress Dowager Zhao, the haughty princess. Of the three sons of Emperor Anqing, she loved Xiao Zhige the most.

An Changqing once asked her that she was distressed by the loss of her mother when Xiao Zhige was young. But this reason is far-fetched. But if you add in the death of concubine Li, it may be able to explain it.

An Changqing subconsciously went to see Xiao Zhige and saw that his expression was tense, his eyes were deep and could not see the bottom, and his thin lips pursed very hard. Although he barely maintained his composure, he read out a sense of panic and fragility.

The heart tightened, an Changqing looked toward Shu Lingting, his eyes instantly cooled down, and got up to see the guest off.

"We will find out whether it is true or not. If General Shu is all right, please go back. "

He impolitely issued an eviction order, Shu Ling stopped without annoyance, shook his head and sighed: "…". It was my thoughtlessness. Maybe I shouldn't have talked about it. "

An Changqing smiled coldly and said, "I think General Shu is too thoughtful."

Shu Ling stopped pretending not to understand and had a fight with him.

An Changqing sent him out of the hall and suddenly looked at him: "General Shu wrote down his love for the Northern War, but the debt of human life is not so easy to pay off, and Prince will personally ask for the rest in the future."

Shu Ling stopped smiling, gave him a perfunctory arch, and strode out.

An Changqing looked a little pale, reached out and rubbed her cheek, adjusted her expression, and then folded back into the hall.

Xiao Zhige still sat in the same position as he had before he went out, with blue veins popping out on both sides of his neck and on the back of his hands, and the blue meridians abruptly ran through the skin, looking a little frightening.

As if an Changqing was not aware of it, he squatted forward, resting on the back of his hand and said, "No matter whether what he said is true or false, let's go and ask the eldest princess." If the mother imperial concubine is really harmed by an adulterer, we will find out the enemy and avenge her. "

Although he felt that Shu Linting dared to say this today, the ten things were true.

Moreover, most of the affairs of Li's concubines have something to do with the queen. Shu Ling stopped saying that she was returning the favor, but wanted to take the opportunity to provoke a struggle between them and the queen.

Xiao Zhige looked up at him and his pupils quivered a little. An Changqing clasped his hand even harder: "it's late today. Tomorrow I'll go to the Grand Duke's Mansion. Would you like to come with me?"

Two people looked at each other for a long time, Xiao Zhige extremely difficult to spit out a "go" word, voice hoarse out of shape.

The king of the Northern War was always invincible, and he was a Zhengzheng man who could kill the enemy with a gun even if he was wounded. An Changqing had never seen him so fragile, and the truth of his death pierced his copper and iron armor and broke him into a rout.

Although he was still calm, an Changqing looked in a trance at Little Xiao Zhige, who had just returned from the palace that year, but suddenly learned that the mother imperial concubine had died.

An Changqing did not say those empty and useless words of comfort, but always held his hand tightly and accompanied him silently.

Xiao Zhige stared down at the hands of the two people, and only for a long time did he say in a dumb voice: "after the death of the mother imperial concubine, I secretly checked for a long time, but I didn't find any clues." Everyone told me that the mother imperial concubine could not stand the hardship of the cold palace and chose to commit suicide. "

He didn't believe it at first, but later, when he couldn't find evidence and heard more, he gradually believed it and really gave up to pursue the truth.

But his mother imperial concubine is obviously a tough and cheerful woman, even if she has lost her favor and moved to Qifeng Palace, which is no different from Lenggong, even if the minions below have to take the helm of the wind and even their meals and clothes have to be deducted, the mother imperial concubine has never shown a look of sadness.

She was born as a commoner, and the evil slave withheld his food, and he was so hungry that he cried, so she went to the garden to find flowers and plants to eat, and made cakes for him to eat with the flour she begged. When some of her clothes were withheld, she pulled the curtain to make cloth and made him a jacket to protect him from the cold.

Li concubine used to enjoy the favor of emperors, I do not know how many people's eyes. Later, when he lost momentum, he did not need those dignitaries to do it, so there were so many lackeys who would look at them and tried their best to deal with them. For many years, mother and son were dependent on each other. But her temperament has always been gentle, love and love Xiao Zhige, try her best to give him what she can, and protect him to grow up safely.

How can such a tough mother abandon her nine-year-old son and choose to kill herself?

"I shouldn't have believed it." Xiao Zhige's voice trembled slightly: "she died unjustly, but I believed the words of outsiders and gave up looking for the truth." Let her die inexplicably. "

He muttered to himself, "the mother princess must be very disappointed."

"that's not true." An Changqing was sore in her heart and hugged him into her arms: "you were still so young at that time. How can you find out when those people work together to deceive you?"

"the mother princess will certainly not blame you." An Changqing patted him on the back and said softly, "she loves you so much. She must be looking forward to your good life." Besides, it's not too late for us to avenge her. "

Feeling that the strength on his waist was getting stronger and stronger, an Changqing sighed and hugged him hard.

Xiao Zhige was particularly silent that night, and the fragility of that short moment in the hall seemed to be an illusion. He calmly had dinner with an Changqing, then went to take a bath, and then even went to see the two children. Then took a rest with an Changqing.

The whole person calmly called an Changqing was a little afraid.

No one slept that night.

As soon as it was dawn, Xiao Zhige got up. He looked no different from the past, but the occasional hostility in the fundus frightened an Changqing.

After breakfast, the two went to the Grand Duke's House together.

The Grand Duke's House was magnificent, but the courtyard was left out in the cold. Since the eldest princess had a grudge against the horse, she moved back to the princess house from the Cai family, and the couple have been living away from the house ever since. On the other hand, the Grand Duke's Mansion is closed to visitors and seldom communicates with people.

Perhaps there were few visitors, and the concierge saw the two people froze for a moment, and then hurried in to announce it.

After waiting for a moment, Mammy around the princess came to greet her, and her eyes narrowed with laughter. "the princess is really a rare visitor. The eldest princess misses you most on weekdays."

Xiao Zhige was silent. An Changqing smiled politely and followed her into the main courtyard.

When the two men went in, they saw the eldest princess standing at the gate of the courtyard looking this way. her eyes touched both of them, and her cold expression was warm in an instant. She came up slowly and said, "Why are you here all of a sudden?"

An Changqing looked at her. perhaps in her own house, she dressed very well, and her face was not powdered, but in this way, the wrinkles on the corners and brows of her eyes were revealed.

With a sigh in his heart, an Changqing did not beat around the bush, looked her in the eye and said, "Wang Ye has something to ask her aunt."

As soon as Xiao Youxi was stupefied, the smile on his face faded, and then he went to see Xiao Zhige and saw that his eyes were heavy. The last smile on the lips also disappeared. As she pursed her lips, her expression became extremely pale, as if for a long time. She sighed silently and told the attendant Mammy, "tell the people to wait outside the yard. You guard the door yourself. No one is allowed to come in without my instructions."

Then he said to an Changqing, "follow me."

The three went into the room together, and then Mammy closed the doors and windows, and the light in the inner room dimmed.

This should be the rest place of the eldest princess on weekdays, with a table in the middle of the room and four futons on the side. A few rolls of Buddhist sutras and a pot of tea.

Compared with the magnificent princess's house, the inner room is much more simple.

Three people are seated. An Changqing and Xiao Zhige sat on one side, and the eldest princess sat opposite them alone.

She poured them tea in person, and Xiao Youxi even smiled faintly. She had a sense of fear but expectation. After carrying it for so many years, she was finally going to have a relief.

"if you want to ask, ask." She said.

An Changqing did not open his mouth and went to see Xiao Zhige. Xiao Zhige's pupils trembled slightly and asked in a deep voice, "my mother's concubine, how did she die?"

Xiao Youxi was in a trance for a moment, then exhaled a long, cloudy breath: "you do know."

She looked down and pondered for a moment, as if thinking about what to say. The sealed memories in her mind came up again, and for a long time, she just said, "it was the prince who killed her by mistake."

An Changqing was stupefied, he thought the murderer would be the queen, how could it be the crown prince?

Xiao Zhige obviously did not understand, but then he thought of something in general, his face was colder than before, and his fundus was cold and murderous.

Xiao Youxi did not look at them. She knew that they must be as shocked as she had just learned the truth.

In that year, the prince was only fourteen years old. He is the first son of Nakamiya and is backed by a strong mother's family. As soon as he was born, he was canonized as the crown prince and taught as Heir Apparent from an early age. The Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager were very strict with him, and he performed so well that he was better than his brother in both his studies and abilities. Since the age of 12, he has been brought by Emperor Anqing to teach political affairs.

So when Emperor Anqing went to Chunshan Palace for autumn hunting that year, he left the crown prince to supervise the country. No one thought that beneath the appearance of courtesy and politeness, he was hiding a madman with a twisted mind.

That year, Tsai Chun, the horse, did not accompany her and stayed in charge of the palace defense. Xiao Youxi and his young couple, naturally, did not go hunting in autumn, so they went to the palace to accompany the empress dowager. She recalled what she had seen that night, and for many years she had imagined that she had never known it, so that she did not have to bear the heavy sin and could not sleep day and night.

She closed her eyes and her straight back bent slightly: "the queen taught strictly, and the prince was obedient on the surface, but she gradually became rebellious in secret." Maybe he once saw that Li's concubine loved you very much, and he gradually developed a heart of jealousy. "

No one could understand what was on his mind at that time. The 14-year-old Lang said that it was too early for a man, but he already knew the personnel.

Just as Anqing Emperor took Xiao Zhige to the palace, only Li concubines were left in the Qifeng Palace, he had a strange idea. Later, the prince argued that he was just jealous that Xiao Zhige had such a loving mother, and that he had never felt his mother's love, so he was obsessed with looking for his concubine.

The prince said: he just wanted to make Li concubine love him as much as Xiao Zhige.

But Li's concubine was not only unwilling to get close to him, but even went out to call someone. The prince just panicked and dragged the man back by force. Under the entanglement of the two, the prince accidentally strangled Li's concubine.

Both the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager believed this story, and later Emperor Anqing also believed it.

However, Xiao Youxi always felt that the prince was not necessarily just such a simple mind. Li's concubine was the emperor's concubine, who was no more than 25 years old, and the prince was already fourteen years old. Although she was not yet old enough to get married, there were already people around her.

Such a guess is too dirty, maybe everyone knows it, but no one announces it. After all, in the end, Li's concubine was not violated.

The prince is also a king of the country, and he must not bear such a stain as the obscene harem.

The royal family cannot spread scandals, Emperor Anqing will not allow it, and the Zhao family will not allow it.

The author has something to say:

Ah, today is an unhappy pussy, there is no small theater.