Chapter 347

"No!"

"Don't listen!"

"No way!"

"Unless I die!"

In the bedroom of Renshou palace, after listening to Gu Jiao's suggestion, Empress Dowager Zhuang refused without thinking. There was no room for maneuver.

Gu Jiao gave a strange hum.

I've known my aunt for so long, and for the first time I was rejected so thoroughly.

In fact, she didn't do anything. She just conveyed her grandfather's words and asked her aunt to put aside her prejudice and cooperate with the emperor to lead the people behind the scenes.

But it seems that my aunt is not satisfied with my grandfather's proposal.

"Three more preserves a day?" Gu Jiao throws sugar coated shells.

"Hum!" Empress Dowager Zhuang was not moved.

"Four?"

"Well... Five?" Gu Jiao measured her five fingers.

But empress dowager Zhuang insisted on her position, as if in order not to give Gu Jiao the chance to crush her own defense line with sugar coated shells, she went to her study without looking back.

"Alas." Gu Jiao sighed.

Gu Jiao walked out slowly, came to the front courtyard, and sat on the lonely swing.

How busy it is when the little clearance is here, how cold it is when he is away.

The night in July is not so cool. It's still hot. It's just because of the continuous rain. It's not as sultry as the days before.

Gu Jiao sat on the swing frame, idly swinging on the swing, sighing.

Qin Gonggong persistent dust came: "Gu girl."

Gu Jiao points the ground with her toes and stops swinging.

"Duke Qin." She said hello.

Duke Qin stood by the swing frame, looked at Gu Jiao, and looked at the boundless night.

It was the first time that he saw Gu Jiao in his mind. He took her as a little girl who didn't know the rules and didn't know the superiority of heaven and earth. After some contact, he found that he was very wrong.

Where is this girl who doesn't know the rules and doesn't know the heaven and earth? She clearly trampled on the rules and made a hole in the sky.

She has the calmness that does not belong to the girl's family of the same age, and also has the childlike innocence that has been abandoned by the girl's family of the same age.

She doesn't have so much money and worldly burden. She wants to be good to a person, that is, she wants to be good to a person, regardless of the cost, without any reservation or doubt.

Whether that person is good or evil.

She has her own faith and is so firm that no one can easily shake her.

Thin and small body also somehow seems to contain infinite power, reassuring power, but also people want to close to the power.

Occasionally, Duke Qin would think that if his majesty had been as firm and confident as Miss Gu, would he not have come this far with the Empress Dowager?

"Your Majesty was very clingy when he was a child. He was very clingy to the Empress Dowager. Princess binian was clingy to the Empress Dowager."

Duke Qin said, as if remembering something interesting, and he all laughed. "I remember that once... The Empress Dowager led a young master of the dealer. It was the young master who didn't know the way and was scared by concubine Liu's dog. The Empress Dowager didn't want to hold him, so she took him. But his Majesty was jealous about it. He didn't eat well at night, and he didn't want to sleep well at night. He lay on the bed and tossed his temper, but he didn't say what happened to him.

Static too imperial concubine asks him, is what uncomfortable? He said nothing. Princess Ning'an also asked him, he was angry and didn't speak

Gu Jiao's look is hard to say, small clearance is not so naive.

"Then, what happened?" Gu Jiao asked.

Qin Gonggong recalled with a smile: "later, Princess Jing sent people to the Empress Dowager's palace, which is the Kunning palace where empress Xiao now lives. Her Majesty climbed to the queen Dowager's bed and slept with her for one night. The next day, she was alive."

Gu Jiao is so naive.

Gu Jiao said, "how old was your majesty then?"

Duke Qin thought about it: "seven or eight years old, I can't remember exactly. I'm a little younger than the seventh Prince now, and I'm not as fat as the seventh prince. Although your majesty is tall and tall now, she looked like a little thin monkey when she was a child. At the age of seven, she looked only five years old. The Empress Dowager once thought that your Majesty would not grow tall in the future. "

It's similar to xiaojingkong. It seems that she doesn't have to worry too much about xiaojingkong. Some people really grow against the wind when they are big.

"And later?" Gu Jiao thinks this story is quite interesting.

Qin Gonggong sighed: "later on, your majesty and the Empress Dowager gradually alienated. I can't tell exactly what happened. Anyway, their relationship became more and more stiff, and Princess Ning'an was in a dilemma. After his majesty ascended the throne, the Empress Dowager listened to the government behind the curtain, and sent Princess Jing to the nunnery. Their relationship was completely destroyed. "

It sounds sad.

Gu Jiao can't understand the complicated emotion, but she substitutes xiaojingkong and herself. If one day xiaojingkong dislikes herself for another, she will be very sad, very sad.

Emotion is the most wonderful thing in the world. It has nothing to do with blood relationship. It's just that once you become a family, you can't lose this person again.

"Is it the same with my aunt and Princess Jing?" Gu Jiao asked.

Duke Qin nodded. The Empress Dowager used to really take Princess Jing as a friend, but who didn't miss her when she was young?

The enemy's attack is not terrible, the betrayal from the most trusted people is the real pain.

Gu Jiao pause, asked: "aunt so smart people, can't get your majesty back from that person?"

Duke Qin had no choice but to shake his head: "it's not that there's no way, it's that he doesn't want to think of a way. Once he's cold, it doesn't matter."

"Is it... More sorrow than death?" Gu Jiao looks at Qin Gong to ask.

Qin Gonggong nodded: "yes, that's the reason."

Gu Jiao probably has experienced this feeling. She can't remember the feeling. The memory of being abandoned by her parents in her childhood is only a few sounds and pictures. She can look at them calmly and feel no pain.

This is actually called numbness.

She was numb when she was very young, so she could be an agent in the organization and the coldest killer.

Empress Dowager Zhuang only experienced these things in her middle age. She couldn't be completely numb, so she had to make her heart die.

She is Zhuang Jinse, the most powerful empress dowager of Zhao kingdom. She has her own pride. When she was a queen, she disdained to compete with the harem for favor. Now how can she compete with Princess Jing for a man? Even if that man is his adopted son.

Gu Jiao understood. She held the rope of the swing and looked at Duke Qin: "I know. Thank you, Duke Qin."

She won't force her aunt to do what she doesn't want to do.

Since grandfather's method doesn't work, she will come to think of other methods.

Qin Gonggong is very pleased. He is a sensible child. Let alone the empress dowager, he can't help but want to hurt her.

It's a pity that he is a eunuch. He has no skill and can't hurt her.

Gu Jiao got up from the swing and went to empress dowager Zhuang's study.

Empress Dowager Zhuang is very angry when she looks at the story. She has been caught by someone whose hands and feet are not clean. She is not a wise monarch. She has been up and down in the back palace and the court for so many years. She deeply understands one truth, that is, when the water is clear, there is no fish.

She has always valued a person's ability, and the advantages of employing people are the disadvantages of accommodating people. This does not mean that those people under her can do whatever they want.

There's a limit to everything. You can't really kill people and set fire to them, and you can't wantonly kill people to satisfy their desires. There's a limit to everything. She won't connive and cover up after that.

"One million taels of disaster relief silver, 950000 taels of ink money, but also let people seize the handle, do not kill you to kill who!"

Empress Dowager Zhuang hummed coldly and threw the folded pieces into the pile of folded pieces on her left. These are the folded pieces that can be presented to the emperor. Because the emperor can't rub the sand in his eyes, he will take this matter seriously.

"Auntie?"

A round head came in.

You don't have to look to guess who it is.

Empress Dowager Zhuang answered the question, "what are you doing?"

Gu Jiao said: "it's getting late. I'll go back first. You can rest early."

Then she closed the door gently for her aunt.

"Wait a minute." Empress Dowager Zhuang called her faintly.

"Well?" Gu Jiaofu pushed the door open again. Her eyes turned and stepped over the threshold. A pair of Phoenix eyes looked at empress dowager Zhuang without blinking.

Empress Dowager Zhuang took a book and said carelessly, "does that just count?"

"Which sentence?" Gu Jiao asked.

Empress Dowager Zhuang cleared her throat: "just five!"

Gu Jiao stretched out her hand, looked at her five fingers, and then looked at empress dowager Zhuang. Her eyes were bright: "count! But isn't my aunt unwilling? "

Empress Dowager Zhuang broke down in her heart. A successful empress dowager can't live with candied fruit!

Empress Dowager Zhuang said coldly, "from today on."

"Good!" Gu Jiao didn't hesitate. It happened that her purse contained the latest candied preserves. She took out the box, counted five of them and left them in the box, and stuffed the rest into her mouth.

Empress Dowager Zhuang

Empress Dowager Zhuang took a deep breath and rolled down her heart: "isn't it eight? Why are there only five? "

Originally three a day, said to give five more, that is not eight?

She just held back today and didn't eat one.

Gu Jiao's mouth was full of candied fruit and said vaguely: "five... If you don't believe me, think about it again..."

Empress Dowager Zhuang recalled her original words in her mind.

"Three candies a day?"

She didn't say yes.

Then the girl said——

"Four?"

"Well... Five?"

It seems that the word "eat more" has not been added to the last two sentences.

Empress Dowager Zhuang punched on the memorial!

... hasty!

Gu Jiao is very gentle to her aunt. She mainly respects her aunt's opinions and tells her the whole story. She has nothing to hide from her aunt.

There is no such treatment for the emperor. The old sacrificial wine is dug pit by pit, so that the emperor can't get out of the pit without planting it.

However, the emperor was also strongly opposed to the cooperation with empress dowager Zhuang: "anything else is OK, but this one is not! I don't want to collude with that poisonous woman! "

The old toaster said earnestly: "Your Majesty, it's not the time to play the devil. It's important to find out the real murderer behind the scenes. Is your Majesty's face important, or is the life of the princess important? And Jiaojiao's life. Jiao Jiao's life will not be told. Anyway, it's not your Majesty's person. "

Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen? How come the little miracle doctor is not him?

Together, only Zhuang Jinse, the poisonous woman in the world, will love her and ignore her, won't she?

"I lost my word." The old toaster apologized, "what I mean is that Jiaojiao can protect herself. In her early years, Princess Liu persecuted her and left her old wounds. In case the assassin would poison her again, it's really impossible to prevent."

This is what the master and servant of Princess Jing said. Princess Jing has old wounds and is very weak!

The emperor was finally convinced.

So the next morning, there was a scene that surprised all the civil and military officials. The emperor went to the Jinluan palace with Zhuang Tai.

Don't these two people dislike each other even when they appear in the same yard? Why is it an hour to go to court today? Usually, either empress dowager Zhuang or the emperor arrived first. In a word, they didn't meet each other.

When they arrived at the gate of the Jinluan palace, the emperor stopped, gave empress dowager Zhuang a smile, made a gesture of invitation, and said, "please, mother."

Empress Dowager Zhuang was so thunderstruck that she almost didn't lift the soleplate of her shoes and yelled at his brain spoon!

It took empress dowager Zhuang a long time to resist. She nodded and strode across the threshold.

Civil and military officials knelt down on both sides with wat boards.

Empress Dowager Zhuang went ahead. When he came up the steps, Duke Qin cleared his throat. Empress Zhuang stopped and stretched out her hand.

Now it was the emperor's turn to lift the soles of his shoes and make himself dizzy.

Do you still have this operation?

He didn't say anything about Huo!

The emperor held back his heart and held empress dowager Zhuang's wrist.

Their mother, Tzu Tzu, went up the steps and sat down in their respective positions. They wiped their hands on their bodies without any trace!

Emperor: dislike!

Empress Dowager Zhuang: Oh, who is not!

Today's early Dynasty is also very harmonious - the emperor dealt with a minister of Empress Dowager Zhuang's camp. Empress dowager Zhuang not only did not obstruct him, but praised the emperor for his good judgment.

Empress Dowager Zhuang said with concern that the emperor's body seemed to be a little less than before. She should take care of the dragon's body more. She must not be damaged by the state affairs.

"What the mother said is very true. The son wrote it down." The emperor said humbly in the direction of the curtain.

Civil and military officials simply suspect that they are blind and deaf!

I can see the emperor and Empress Dowager make up in my lifetime. Are they crazy or are they?

The news was so shocking that the officials of the two factions who should have been fighting each other became dumb guns.

It's not enough for the civil and military officials to see it, but also for the people in the harem to know it.

So after going to court, the mother and the son went to the imperial garden together again. They talked and laughed all the way, which was very pleasant.

"Your Majesty, it's time to laugh." Qin Gonggong reminds.

The emperor pinched his fist and looked up to the sky with a long smile: "ha ha ha!"

"Empress dowager, it's your turn." Wei Gonggong reminds.

Empress Dowager Zhuang turned her eyes and said, "ha ha ha."

In less than a day, all the six palaces heard that they had settled their differences.

Empress Xiao was the first to come to Huaqing Palace to inquire about the news: "your majesty! My concubine heard that you and the Empress Dowager... "In the middle of the story, she saw the man sitting next to the emperor and bowed," Empress Dowager. "

Static too imperial concubine tiny ground smile: "empress come to sit."

"Yes."

In fact, as empress Xiao's position was, there was no need to salute a princess, but the emperor regarded her as his mother, and empress Xiao could only be a filial daughter-in-law.

Empress Xiao sat down on the other side of Princess Jing.

Princess Jing asked with a smile, "what did the queen want to ask your majesty just now?"

Empress Xiao looked at them, hesitated for a moment, and said, "my concubine has heard something about your majesty and the Empress Dowager. I don't know whether it's true or not. I'd like to ask."

Emperor tone magnanimous: "since you all know, then I do not need to say more."

Empress Xiao was surprised: "so it's true? Why? "

It's really strange that people who have been fighting for more than ten or twenty years suddenly let go of their old grudges. In order not to arouse people's suspicion, the old sacrificial wine has found a perfect way to reconcile them.

The emperor had a good memory and did not forget his words. He said, "can the queen remember that Xiao Heng was poisoned near Renshou palace more than ten years ago?"

Empress Xiao's eyes were cold: "I remember it

Xiao Heng is her brother's son and her favorite nephew. He was nearly poisoned. She will never forget this revenge in her life!

The emperor said, "the murderer has been found. It's not ordered by the Empress Dowager. There's another person behind it. I've misunderstood the Empress Dowager all these years, and I'm really ashamed that she has been wronged. "

It's hard for him to say the last few words, but the old toaster said that these words are soul lines, not enough to win people's trust.

He seriously suspected that the old sacrificial wine was faking public welfare!

"What? Someone else? Who is it? " The soul of empress Xiao asked three times!

Static too imperial concubine droops Mou, carry tea cup, drank tea quietly.

The emperor said, "the man who poisoned aheng is Zhang Xiu. He used to work in Shanggong Bureau, and he is also a person beside me."

Empress Xiao: "Your Majesty..."

The emperor sighed remorsefully: "I didn't expect that she would do such a thing. I was careless. A few days ago, she suddenly committed suicide by hanging a beam. One of her old friends took away her relics. It was only a few days ago that the old friend discovered the secret of many years ago from her relics. "

Empress Xiao stood up directly: "Your Majesty, I don't believe it!"

The old sacrificial wine didn't tell the emperor that Zhang Xiu was really a murderer. He took it as an excuse to announce it to the emperor.

The emperor thought that what he said was false, and empress Xiao thought that the emperor had been deceived. These are not important. The important thing is that the people who instructed Zhang Xiu will understand that this is true.

As long as she believes.