Chapter 546

Mother Jiang nodded slightly and said with a smile, "it's his blessing to meet his mother."

"Don't say that. I don't have any luck for others... In the final analysis, I owe it to you for helping me these years."

If she could, how she wanted to send everyone around her out safely.

I don't know what I thought, the Queen's mind gradually drifted away.

Seeing this scene, mother Jiang thought of her mother's just saying, "things are almost finished". Inexplicably, she was a little uneasy, so she brought a cup of tea and held it in the past: "mother, have a cup of tea..."

The queen took the tea and drank it slowly.

In the heart nourishing hall, Emperor Qingming called Xia Tingzhen to discuss with Ji Xiu.

Listening to the emperor's explanation to Ji Xiu, Xia Tingzhen was calm, but she was impatient in her heart.

"Your Majesty, it's time to take medicine." Li Ji timely reminded her, with a slight hoarseness in her voice.

The matter of Qiao Biying didn't come to an end. He took twenty sticks to punish him. He was slightly ill yesterday.

Seeing emperor Qingming nodding, Xia Tingzhen and Ji Xiu got up in time, saluted and left.

After exiting the inner hall, Ji Xiu walked a little faster and stepped down the white jade steps.

At this time, the internal supervisor from the teahouse came over with a tray and was about to come to the door of the hall.

He hung his head all the way and just ran into Xia Tingzhen who came out of the hall.

In a panic, the teapot held by the internal supervisor hit her feet, and the freshly brewed tea splashed Xia Tingzhen all over her body.

"How can I do it! I can't do it without eyes!" the eunuch in charge of one side immediately scolded: "don't make amends with the chief assistant quickly!"

The internal warden's face faded and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Lord Shoufu, forgive me, Lord Shoufu!"

Then he quickly raised his head, flustered and took his sleeve to wipe the tea on his shoes for the adults in front of him. When he saw that the sleeve of the official robe was also wet and stained with a few pieces of tea, he took another sleeve to wipe it off.

In a hurry to wipe the room, half of the folded paper leaked from the inner supervisor's sleeve, which seemed to be stuffed into Xia Tingzhen's sleeve through the cover of his action——

But only he knew that the paper had returned to his sleeve again.

However, the eunuch in charge who has been watching his every move carefully is doomed not to think so——

The eunuch in charge had a slight flash in his eyes: "it's all due to the lax discipline of the slave. That's why this thing without eyes collided with the adult. Do you want the slave to take the adult to change?"

All happened in a short moment. Xia Tingzhen frowned and said coldly, "no need."

Then he walked away with a cold face, brushed his sleeves and strode away.

The eunuch in charge saluted and sent it off. Then he looked at the inner prison kneeling where he was. He raised his eyebrows and scolded, "look, you're available on weekdays. That's why you're in a position to serve tea. You're good. You caused me such trouble the first day!"

"It's the slave's negligence. Please give the slave another chance!" tears came out of the inner prison's eyes.

"All right, don't clean up quickly and go down to get the punishment!"

"Yes, yes..." Xiao Chenzi answered and quickly picked up the pieces of broken porcelain in front of him.

"What a useless thing..." the eunuch in charge scolded and looked coldly at the seemingly timid little eunuch.

On the other side, Ji Xiu deliberately slowed down.

Seeing the wet dark marks on Xia Tingzhen's body, Ji Xiu smiled and said, "Lord Xia seems to be having a bad time recently. The Duke of the town is on his way back to Beijing... Lord Xia has a good abacus. Why did he fall empty?"

Xia Tingzhen turned to look at him and said coldly, "if there is no evidence, please ask Ji Shangshu to speak carefully -"

Ji Xiu replied with a sneer.

He did not have any evidence and knew nothing about Xia Tingzhen and the emperor's specific plans——

But when the emperor called him into the palace today, he told him that he would strengthen the defense of the capital before and after the Duke of the town returned to Beijing, and even allocated some troops to him - Oh, if he hadn't done something wrong, would he be afraid of farting?

Xia Tingzhen strode away, ignoring Ji Xiu's sarcasm.

He has never wasted his energy and mind on such meaningless words, especially the recent changes one after another——

Looking at the thin and straight back, Ji Xiu's eyes cooled inch by inch.

He has always dreamed of two sons recently.

Previously, he would dream, but he never dreamed of such a clear process. Everything he heard in the yuan family lacquer shop that night was engraved in his mind word by word, lingering day and night, and slowly woven into a complete dream.

Every time he dreamed of it, he felt as if he had experienced another pain of losing his son. Now this pain is not only pain, but also hatred——

In his dream, he promised the two children that he would find out the truth and seek justice for them!

Two official sedans were waiting outside the Forbidden Palace. When Xia Tingzhen sat in the official sedan, she closed her eyes and gradually closed her hands on her knees.

Today, the emperor told Ji Xiu everything in front of him, like beating or testing

There was a mistake in poisoning the Duke of the town, and Yue Pei was exposed again. It was normal for the emperor to vent his anger on him.

But he vaguely felt that it didn't just seem so

Is it for Joe?

Xia Tingzhen frowned and opened her eyes.

But does this have anything to do with him? Even if the emperor doubted, he had no reason to doubt him

The emperor's mind is changeable, especially recently it has become more and more elusive.

The Duke of Zhenguo will return to Beijing soon. I don't know what the situation will be

These are far from his previous plans. Thinking of all the disadvantages to himself, Xia Tingzhen showed a rare irritability in the bottom of her eyes.

In a few moments, he thought of Qiao Biying again.

[reading a red envelope] pay attention to the public. The number of people [book store], reading the highest 888 cash bonus!

He could almost conclude that it must have something to do with the queen——

And behind the queen is the Wu family

If he can find evidence to prove this, even if it is only suspected evidence, at such a juncture, he is not afraid that the emperor who is almost crazy will not take action against the Wu family——

He can't say he has any enemies with the Wu family, but if the Yan king really wants to win the throne, the biggest chip is the Wu family

And he must not let King Yan sit in that position, otherwise he will have no way to live

If it was said that everything was to pave the way for the prosperity of the Xia family in the future, now in this situation, what he wants is to protect his life first

So now he only cares about one thing——

The emperor can die

But before he died, the emperor needed himself to remove as many obstacles as possible for the little prince in the Palace - in other words, it was his Majesty's responsibility as a 'father', wasn't it?

Xia Tingzhen looked deeply into her eyes and wondered where to start to investigate the Wu family.

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In the heart nourishing hall, Emperor Qingming put down the medicine bowl in his hand, took the green tea held by Li Ji and rinsed his mouth.

"Your Majesty, today is the day of death of imperial concubine Chen... Your majesty is going to see Qingyang palace?" Li Ji put down the tea lamp and gently reminded her.

Concubine Chen, the biological mother of the crown prince, fell ill and left three years ago.

On his death two years ago, his majesty always pretended to go to Qingyang palace for a while.

"Let the people below do it according to the rules, and I won't go." emperor Qingming frowned anxiously and didn't care about such trifles.

Li Ji answered "yes".

Well, your majesty, you don't even look like that now.

It can be seen that the inner eunuch carrying the medicine bowl went out from the inner hall. The eunuch in charge of the outer hall just entered and reported what he had just seen.

"Note..." emperor Qingming suddenly sat up straight and asked in a deep voice, "can you see it clearly?"

"Yes, the slave can see clearly!" the eunuch in charge said in a low voice: "the little thing held the tea tray and pretended to bump into Xia Shoufu. While wiping the tea with reparation, he quietly stuffed the note into Xia Shoufu's sleeve..."

Recently, he was ordered to take someone to keep an eye on Xiao Chenzi. He would not miss a single detail.

Emperor Qingming squeezed out a sneer from his teeth.

"OK, that's good..."

Recently, due to Joe's inevitable response, the palace was heavily guarded and the letter couldn't be spread, so he made such small moves under his eyes

He should have thought of it. As soon as the matter of the Duke of the town came to his ears that night, the only thing he knew was Xia Tingzhen. He could expect that he would attack Qiao that night, and most of them were Xia Tingzhen!

Are you going to hide Joe Bing as a chip to threaten him?

Or do you want to dedicate it to others to be an investment certificate to protect your life in the future?!

His good teacher is always so thoughtful... He knows this better than anyone!

On weekdays, he can turn a blind eye to the other party's actions of secretly seeking profits for himself, but if he has the intention of betraying him

Perhaps it was just the usual means that led him to doubt the queen and the national teacher!

"Where is the inner prison now..." emperor Qingming tried his best to restrain his anger, which was almost dizzy. Recently, he became more and more irritable and felt uncontrollable when his thoughts diverged.

"Back to your majesty, just now the slave has let him go down to receive punishment."

"Bring people to me -"

He has to interrogate himself!

"Yes." the eunuch in charge responded and withdrew.

"... no one has ever been here?"

The eunuch, who came to the back hall to punish the palace maids, frowned and said, "where have you gone?"

An inner-abdominal supervisor whispered, "since the teahouse came out, he slipped out of the side door quietly, but don't worry, Liu Song secretly followed."

The eunuch in charge moved his eyebrows.

Slipped out

What are you playing with?

Is it

Thinking of a possibility, the eunuch in charge hurriedly said: "you also go out and look for it, so that Liu Song can't see it alone. If you find someone, remember not to rush to scare the snake, and carefully see where he's going, but who he's going to see..."

He also has to tell his majesty about it!

The eunuch in charge turned back to the bedroom and informed emperor Qingming of the news that xiaochenzi had slipped out.

Emperor Qingming's eyes flashed.

"Watch first, and let me know as soon as you have any news."

It's also a good thing if we can lead other people or clues——

Now it seems that he can't be too hasty to conclude who the little eunuch is

Outside the hall, the twilight is getting darker.

Xiaochenzi followed the path all the way to the imperial garden.

At this time, there was no one around, and his footsteps woke up a lot.

The eunuch who followed him had to tread lightly as far as possible and did not dare to follow too close.

Xiao Chenzi walked in the dark and had only one idea in his mind - he must get rid of the other party, otherwise once the other party found out his intention, he would have to be arrested and tortured!

He's not afraid of torture.

But in this way, the play was not so perfect

And if the empress is disturbed, if the empress tries to save him secretly again, won't it be easy to be caught?

After all, my mother has been too adventurous lately.

And he can't let his mother take risks for himself.

He knew that something had happened to xiaojiezi.

Even though there was no news in the dark court, he agreed with xiaojiezi that he would mark the dog hole in the backyard of the dark court the next day to convey the news.

It's his own opinion to let xiaojiezi do this, so he has to bear the consequences, start and finish, do it cleanly, and can't leave trouble for his mother

With these thoughts in mind, Xiao Chenzi suddenly accelerated at his feet and dodged into the side path.

The eunuch who followed him noticed something strange and hurried to catch up.

Listening to the footsteps coming from behind, Xiao Chenzi ran forward in the night. I don't know if the night wind was too strong, which made his eyes red and burst into tears.

At the same moment, the prince came out of Qingyang palace with two internal attendants.

Today is the death of his mother's concubine. He came to his mother's residence to have a look.

In previous years, his father and emperor would come together. This year, he was the only one.

"I want to sit in front." when passing a lotus pond, the prince slowed down and said, "you stay here."

The two waiters didn't say much. They answered "yes", so they stopped obediently and didn't follow up.

His Highness the prince often comes to this lotus pond to sit alone and only let them watch from a distance every time.

There is a stone table beside the lotus pond. The prince sits there quietly with some sour eyes.

When his mother was still there, he came here most often. At first, he only thought that her mother loved Lian. Later, he learned that it was because he passed here every day when he read——

When he was young, he was raised in the empress's palace, and his mother was weak and of low birth. Before giving birth to him, he was just a small waiter.

Therefore, he had little chance to meet his mother imperial concubine, and his father didn't want him to find his mother imperial concubine——

But he knew that his mother had always been thinking of him

"Mother imperial concubine, I miss you..."

The boy's voice was so low that he could not hear it. He looked at the withered lotus pond and spoke intermittently.

"My son has always dreamed of you recently. Do you want to be my son too?"

"You know, ah Jin also died... He grew up with me. Before that, I accidentally caught the cold. My father and Emperor blamed him for not taking good care of me, so he sent him out. After he was punished, he fell ill. It was all his ministers who hurt him..."

"I will bury him well..."

"My father has stopped asking people to pay attention to me as before... Probably because I don't have much time."

There was no bitterness in the boy's tone. He sighed faintly.

"But my son always wants to do something... Even if I can't be a figure like General Xu, I can't leave nothing in the world..."

"Mother imperial concubine..."

At this time, the boy suddenly heard a sound in the grass not far from his side.

It's not like the movement of the wind

"Who's there?"

The prince lowered his voice and asked tentatively.

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