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Chapter 126
Chapter 126
Compared with Zhen Tingyun's shame and happiness, Fu Changxi was full of anger at this time, but he still suppressed this full of anger and went to Qianyuan Palace first.
An imperial doctor was checking the pulse of the little emperor in the hall, and when he heard that the regent was coming, he hurriedly got up and came out to salute the regent, and pleaded guilty, full of anxiety and fear.
However, Fu Changxi only nodded slightly, refusing his salute. He suppressed the fire in his heart, his face was still cold, but his words were as sharp as a sword: "How did I tell you? I asked you and Song Yuan to accompany His Majesty. It's to make you one mile away, and your Majesty the guard to comfort you. It's not to listen to you kneeling on the ground and begging me in a long-winded way!"
As soon as these words came out, Imperial Physician An couldn't stand any longer, and immediately knelt down again.
Looking down at his gray hair, Fu Changxi took a deep breath, but in the end he suppressed the anger that was burning more and more, and asked, "What's going on?"
Imperial Physician An hesitated for a moment, so he had to kneel on the ground and tell the truth: "Mother Gao secretly changed the soup and medicine that Her Majesty uses every day, and some of the medicines she changed are cold and cold, and ordinary people will probably catch a cold after using them. A minor illness, but His Majesty's body... ah..."
The decoction that he had worked so hard to concoct in every possible way did not enter the emperor's stomach, but instead was replaced by a poisonous medicine. If it was an ordinary person, it would only be enough to get sick once, and if it fell on their emperor, it would really kill people...
Thinking of the emperor's condition, Imperial Physician An couldn't care less about taking pity on the little emperor, and he became more and more frightened.
"Okay!" Fu Changxi stopped him impatiently, and his voice was cold, "Get up, get out. Also, ask someone to bring that high mammy up."
After a while, the high mama was dragged up.
Mammy Gao was the emperor's wet nurse, who brought up the emperor with one hand, and used to be quite respectable in Qianyuan Palace. But now, she was dragged to the palace, her dress was messy and her hair was disheveled.
When she was dragged up, her expression was sluggish, but when she saw Fu Changxi, her eyes lit up, as if she suddenly had energy, she hurried forward on her knees, shaking her head and defending herself, her voice was sharp and high: " My lord, please enlighten me! I really did not murder your majesty... Back then, Song Shi died after giving birth to a child. He was only a little old. I raised him with milk and pulled him up little by little. Over the years, I have treated him like a parent, loved him and protected him, and never dared to be negligent... It's too late for me to love him, how could I harm him?"
At the end, Mammy Gao was almost insane, her face flushed red, she grabbed the corner of Fu Changxi's robe, and the voice was like a blade that had been squeezed out of her heart, and every word seemed to carry Heart-piercing pain, he murmured: "My lord, my lord, you believe me! Even if I die, I will not harm your majesty."
She didn't even have to ask others to ask, she told the matter herself: "It's the queen mother, she said that she just asked her majesty to have a small illness and it would be fine. I asked people to see the prescription, and I tried it. It's just a minor illness, Your Majesty, how can something happen to him..."
"How can something happen?" At the end, Mammy Gao couldn't seem to bear Fu Changxi's silence any longer and she figured out the truth by herself. She looked up at Fu Changxi, her face was blank, and she burst into tears.
In fact, Empress Dowager Zheng really didn't want to kill anyone - although she thought it would be better to die if she stayed in Nangong, but she still couldn't bear to die, so she turned a corner and used it. Mammy Gao, the dark son, forced people to give medicine to the little emperor. If it is a medicine that kills people, I am afraid that Mammy Gao would rather die than do it, but this is only a medicine that makes people sick, and Mammy Gao has a handle in the hands of Empress Zheng, so she can only be unwilling. Reluctantly.
The Empress Dowager Zheng wanted to come: as long as the little emperor was ill, she could use this to make a great article, saying that the little emperor's illness was because the inner palace was unattended and there were few people to take care of it, and she needed to invite her mother, the mother of the empress dowager, to return to the overall situation; or In this way, the ministers were suspicious of the regent, and suspected that the regent was trying to drive away the queen mother and murder the emperor...
I have to say that Empress Dowager Zheng's calculations are somewhat reasonable, and they are thoughtful. It's a pity that because Fu Changxi sealed the mouth of Imperial Physician An, Empress Dowager Zheng didn't know the little emperor's condition. Naturally, she didn't expect that the little emperor's condition had already exceeded her and Gao Ma's expectations. Just a little medicine would be enough. Killed the little emperor half his life.
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This series of things is really bad and troublesome!
Fu Changxi was angry and tired, looked at the woman who was kneeling on the ground crying with disgust, raised his hand and pulled the corner of his robe out of this man's hand little by little, causing her to be dragged down. Then, he entered the palace to appease the little emperor again, and waited until the little emperor fell asleep after drinking the medicine, and then he called Taiyi An up and said bluntly: "How long?"
Imperial Physician An was taken aback by the question, and then he realized what the Prince Regent was asking again. He hurriedly restrained the expression on his face, lowered his head, and replied softly: "At the end of the year, it can only be delayed until the end of the year."
Fu Changxi raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, all his original plans were messed up by this accident.
At this time, time was urgent, and there was no need to look at those clan children, only Fu Nianjia.
It's just that since there is less than a year left, Fu Nianjia has already ordered, and the rest of the people and things should be dealt with...
Fu Changxi was silent for a moment, and finally called someone in: "Go and call Zheng Cifu over."
At this time, Zheng Cifu was at a loss even when he entered the palace. He wanted to come: Today is the wedding ceremony of the girl from the Zhen family. According to the regent's intention to treat others, he should be still in the Zhen family at this time. Why did he suddenly put himself Called into the palace? If it's a matter of discussion, it's time to call up the first assistant and Pei Ge Lao together...
This is how Zheng Cifu entered the palace full of anxiety.
However, Fu Changxi was too lazy to talk to him about his past affairs, so he directly asked him to take him to see Mammy Gao and Imperial Physician An.
Zheng Cifu is also a smart person. After meeting Mammy Gao and listening to Taiyi An's statement about the emperor's condition, his heart has completely sunk, as if it sank into a quagmire. The more you struggle, the more you sink.
When he returned to the inner hall again and saw the regent sitting in his seat again, Zheng Cifu's face was full of ashes, and he knelt down on the ground, like a wild dog with a broken spine. Get up. He had a full stomach to say, and there were countless words to justify, but when he opened his mouth, he felt a hoarseness in his throat, and he could hardly speak.
After a long time, he squeezed out his voice and said bitterly: "It's up to now, if I don't know anything about this, I'm afraid His Highness won't believe it..."
"I believe." Fu Changxi said categorically.
Hearing this, Zheng Cifu was startled at first, and then something seemed to light up his gray and defeated face. He was simply flattered and couldn't help but say, "My lord, this minister..."
"If you knew, it wouldn't be so stupid to do this." Fu Changxi ignored Zheng Cifu who was still kneeling on the ground, and said calmly, "Stupid and poisonous, probably only your daughter can think of such a thing. "
Zheng Cifu's lips moved, but he was silent for a while.
Fu Changxi said coldly, "It's just, what if you don't know? Kill the king and rebel, this is to kill the nine clans you know, they are all in the Zheng family's nine clans."
Fu Changxi's tone was like ice and snow in the twelfth lunar month, cold, indifferent, and without emotion.
Zheng Cifu only felt that his chest was slowly stuffed with ice and snow, and the cold was so cold that his whole body was shivering. But he still tried his best to kneel up straight, grit his teeth, and said word by word: "My lord, this minister and the rest of the Zheng family didn't know about this before. I also asked the lord to be kind, and don't want to harm the innocent. Apologize to death..."
Compared with Empress Dowager Zheng's vicious stupidity of "I would rather teach me to blame the world than to let the world blame me", Zheng Cifu is a qualified suzerain of the Zheng family. people. Therefore, he taught Empress Dowager Zheng at the beginning, "There will be such a day, at least more than half of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty will finally kneel down and become ministers, thank the Lord Longen. Perhaps, our Zheng family will also have to put aside those old grievances and follow suit. Kneel down and become a minister." - In his opinion, he and Fu Changxi were just a political struggle after all, and if he really lost, his sin would naturally be a confession of guilt and death, but it didn't prevent the rest of the Zheng family from being loyal to the new master...
However, the balance that he was trying to maintain was still ruined by his stupid daughter - murdering the king and treason was the big crime of punishing the Nine Clan.
At this moment, when Zheng Cifu thinks of these, he feels his heart burns. He wishes he could kneel on the ground and cry bitterly, begging for mercy, he wished he could dig his heart out to show his loyalty, and he wished he could strangle his daughter to death with his own hands... It would be good to ask the regent for mercy.
Fu Changxi gave Zheng Cifu a deep look.
Zheng Cifu only felt that this glance was emotionless, as if he was looking at a dead person.
And Fu Changxi's next sentence was: "This is the third time..."
"In the beginning, when your Zheng family advocated for peace and proposed marriage, I wanted to kill all of your Zheng family. But I also knew in my heart: After all, it was Emperor Xiaozong who made the decision, and the original Zheng Shoufu may not have thought about it before he proposed that. decision. So, I let you go."
"After that, when the late emperor died, I had to go to Beijing in favor of Jiangshan's youngest son. On the way, you Zheng family sent someone to assassinate him. Logically, I should also fight a tooth for a tooth. After I entered the capital, you are also considered safe, for the overall situation of the government, I did not take action, and let you go again."
"This is the third time."
"Zheng Cifu, my patience is running out. You have to do something to earn the lives of your Zheng family?"
Zheng Cifu took a deep breath, kowtowed solemnly, and gave a big salute: "His Royal Highness has an order, and the minister will never give up, and dare not to obey."
Fu Changxi looked at him, frowned, and said, "Three things."
"First, since Zheng Shi did this, then she can't be kept any longer - I will ask someone to prepare medicine, you can send it to Nangong, and send her to see the late emperor."
Let Zheng Cifu's biological father deliver the medicine, even if the Queen Mother dies later, outsiders will naturally not suspect that there is another reason for her death.
In this matter, Zheng Cifu deserved to be straightforward, without any hesitation: "The family is unfortunate, this wicked girl is born, thank you His Royal Highness Rong Chen for the atonement."
Fu Changxi continued: "Second, I want the list of your Zheng family's henchmen, both inside and outside the palace."
Such a list can almost be regarded as the last reliance of the Zheng family. If it is handed over, it will be like a tiger with its teeth pulled out. I am afraid that it will be life and death. Zheng Cifu would never have responded if he changed someone else, but this is the regent after all, and even Zheng Cifu had to admire his rock-solid perseverance and uncompromising thoughts-at the beginning, he swore with Emperor Xiaozong If he doesn't want the throne, he doesn't want it, even if the throne is so close at hand. Such a person, who promises a lot of money, is naturally the most trustworthy.
Therefore, even if what he wanted was the last support and wealth of the Zheng family, Zheng Cifu still gritted his teeth and responded: "I will have someone bring it to His Highness as soon as I go back..." After a pause, he added, "There are still some that I haven't recorded. If it's on the list, the minister will be silent."
A dark child like Mammy Gao usually doesn't fall on paper, but only keeps it in mind.
Zheng Cifu said this, of course, is more able to show his sincerity.
Fu Changxi nodded and said calmly, "Third, I want your life."