The emperor left after lunch in the Changchun Immortal Pavilion in Mingming, and before leaving, he urged Mingming to give his four corners ** as soon as possible, and he would wear it at night.

Hao Ming responded with a thousand respects, but remembered the look of the poor noble Cui this morning, so he called Banxia to go to the treasury to get a good old ginseng, took a beautiful big red clay gold blessing brocade box and packed it, and took it to Qinshui Hall to give it to the poor nobleman, and also thought that it was just a good time to ask her if she had something important to say to her.

Qinshuitang is located in a somewhat remote area, next to the flower port to watch fish, but it is a cool and quiet place. The queen placed her here on the grounds that she needed to recuperate.

However, the sound was empty, and the poor nobleman was not in the Qinshui Hall.

A second-class little palace maid named Zuixia replied respectfully: "Our noble person just had lunch, and was called by the Queen Mother, saying that there are a few Buddhist scriptures to be rewarded to the nobleman. ”

Even if the Queen Mother really has a bodhisattva's heart and wants to reward the Buddhist scriptures, she can just ask someone to send them, so why bother to ask the weak poor person to run to fetch it in person? The indifferent and quiet palace where the Queen Mother lives is quite far away from here, and the pity of a little nobleman, and she can't enjoy the shoulder, the warm sedan chair, and walk on foot, but it is really not an easy thing!

He thought about coming here and asked the noble man what he wanted to say, so he went back to the Changchun Immortal Pavilion to modify the emperor's **. Now it seems that the Queen Mother is afraid that she doesn't know what she is planning again......

"Then Ihongu will wait here for a while. "--If she didn't figure it out, she was really uneasy. I just didn't leave.

Zui Xia didn't dare to question anything, and hurriedly made tea and offered it to Ming to moisten her throat.

He waited for more than an hour, and he didn't wait for the noble man to come back. However, Mama Jiang Ji from the Tranquility Hall came. Mama Jiang Ji is a face-saving figure next to the Queen Mother, and she is the eyeliner buried by the emperor, so she is polite.

Mama Jiang Ji saw a dignified salute, and said, "The Queen Mother went to Concubine Shu to ask questions in the Tranquility Palace." ”

Hao Ming was confused, except for the concubine, the queen mother rarely saw the concubines next to her on weekdays, so she hurriedly asked: "I don't know what the queen mother wants?"

Mama Jiang Ji smiled slightly. He lowered his voice and said, "With Niangniang's intelligence, I can naturally guess." In addition, the Queen Mother also sent someone to invite the emperor and the queen to go. So don't delay, please go with the old slave. ”

The emperor and empress were also called? Such a posture is not a trivial matter! The queen mother has rarely made any moves, but when she makes a move. It must be a snake seven inches! But the poor nobleman was also called to the Tranquility Hall before. I haven't come back yet!

The Queen Mother's ...... I'm afraid I'm going to attack the queen. But after all, the hawthorn horseshoe cake was not eaten by the queen for the nobles, even if that thing was not proper, could the queen still blame the queen?

When Hao Ming rushed to go, outside the Tranquility Palace, the emperor's dragon and phoenix had already stopped, after all, Qinshui Hall was located in a remote area, and Hao Ming hurried to arrive. But it's still a step too late. I had to walk into the hall quickly, and knelt down to salute in a proper manner: "The concubine asks the emperor to say goodbye! The queen mother Jin An! The concubine was late, and asked the queen mother to forgive her sins. ”

The Queen Mother sat on the red sandalwood throne above, old and long-looking, but her momentum did not decrease by half, she condescendingly glanced at the humming who was kneeling on the ground, "Get up, you are far away, naturally come later." ”

Bo Ming couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and hurriedly got up and stood aside. After looking at the palace, I found that the emperor was wearing an indigo blue dress and was sitting on a chair next to the Queen Mother, and the queen could only stand beside the Queen Mother.

The emperor exhaled lightly: "Everyone has also arrived, I don't know what the emperor is doing with such fanfare?"

The Queen Mother snorted, with a look of compassion on her wrinkled old face, "The mourning family is old, so that they are not the emperor's heirs?" When Mulan came back, the emperor said that if the Cui family gave birth to a child, it would be handed over to the queen to raise, and the mourning family also agreed. ”

Immediately, the Queen Mother's face turned cold: "But--the mourning family didn't expect it! A well-behaved grandson of the mourning family disappeared all of a sudden!!"

When the queen heard this, she hurriedly bent her knees and said: "It was the concubine who failed to take care of the imperial heir in the belly of the noble person, and asked the emperor to surrender her guilt." ”

The Queen Mother stared coldly at the queen's guilty and sad face, and reprimanded: "The mourning family also thought that the queen was just negligent! But after a closer inspection, it was not the case!!" The queen mother's gaze shifted to Yu Ming, "Concubine Shu!!Since you have already discovered that the pity of the noble person is a victim of people, why didn't you report it early?!"

Ming's body stiffened, and he couldn't help but look at the poor nobleman Cui Shi...... The Queen Mother will ask this kind of thing, which means that Cui Shi is ......

Cui Shi didn't dare to meet the screaming gaze, and hurriedly lowered his head.

Hao Ming had no choice but to stand up, curtsied, and showed a cowardly attitude: "The queen mother's words, the concubine is really confused. ”

The Queen Mother was furious and scolded: "What are you pretending to be confused with the mourning family? The poor nobleman has already told the mourning family! After the poor nobleman had a miscarriage, it was you who found out that the hawthorn horseshoe cake she took every day was a cold thing, and it would inevitably hurt the fetus over time?!!!

The emperor also frowned when he heard this, "Concubine Shu, is what the emperor said true?"

As soon as he bit his lip, tears filled his eyes in an instant, and he knelt down straight, "The concubine did find that the hawthorn horseshoe cake eaten by the noble was inappropriate, but even if it is cold, it varies from person to person. What's more, the pity of the noble man was to save the second princess, so he fell and had a miscarriage. It's not that eating too much water chestnut cake is a misproduction. So the concubine thought that more things were better than less, so she made her own claim and did not report it. ”

The emperor's brows gradually widened when he heard this, "The imperial doctor has also been saying that Cui's fetal appearance has always been stable. ”

The Queen Mother's anger continued unabated, and the old eyebrows were even more awe-inspiring, "After eating cold things for so long, how can the fetus be stable!" So the mourning family felt that something was wrong, so they asked someone to interrogate Imperial Doctor Qi, but I didn't expect to really ask something!" Let's say, the Queen Mother raised her voice and said: "Come on, bring the Imperial Doctor Qi Li!"

Qi Li is the imperial doctor who was responsible for taking care of the noble Cui's fetus before. Before, the noble man said that Imperial Physician Qi was the queen's person...... Now that Qi Li was brought up, the queen's face suddenly turned a little pale.

Qi Li kowtowed again and again: "The emperor spares his life! Cui Xiaozhu's fetus was actually stillborn when it was more than four months old! The slave took care of the dragon fetus poorly, and he was afraid that the emperor would blame him, so he concealed it!!"

"Stillborn?!" The emperor was shocked, although the sticky rod also found that the diet used by Cui's was damaged by the fetus, but at this point, the emperor did not ask to continue the investigation. Anyway, it must have been done by the queen, and there is no point in investigating it further.

"Who instructed you to conceal the stillbirth of the Cui family?!!" The Queen Mother looked down at Qi Li, who was kowtowing and his head was full of blood, and her majesty was pressing.

Qi Li gritted his teeth, and it was a tough posture of resistance.

The Queen Mother snorted angrily, "Pull it down, and call the Shen Criminal Division to torture and interrogate!!"

Qi Li is old, how can he not panic about the eighteen punishments of the Shen Criminal Division, and his face turned pale with fright on the spot.

Seeing this, the queen simply gritted her teeth and knelt down, "The emperor's mother forgives her sins! It was the concubine who asked Imperial Doctor Qi to temporarily conceal the fact that Cui Chang was stillborn! The concubine was not good for taking care of the dragon fetus, and she was at a loss for a while, and she was afraid that the queen mother would blame her, so she was confused for a while, so she asked to hide it for the time being, and I thought about it slowly." Unexpectedly, Cui Changzai, the second princess who saved her concubine, actually fell into a dragon fetus. ”

The Queen Mother snorted coldly, "The queen's crime, how can it be that the care is unfavorable and the fetal death is concealed?!"

The Queen Mother suddenly roared angrily: "Empress! You are a person who has given birth and raised twice, you know better than anyone what is taboo in pregnancy! What kind of cold blood and cold things are you giving to Cui's family!!"

Although the queen knelt on the ground, her waist was straight, and she said without humility or arrogance: "Back to the emperor's mother, during the period when the noble lady was pregnant, the concubine gave her a separate kitchen, and she should eat and drink by herself. The concubine really didn't know that she had eaten something cold and hurt the fetus. Please also ask the emperor to know the truth. ”

The poor nobleman Cui Shi who was standing on the side bit her lip and turned white, her eyes were full of hatred and anger, and she glanced back at her confidant palace maid Qiulu.

Seeing this, the palace maid Qiulu hurriedly knelt down with a puff, and kowtowed: "The emperor and the queen mother, our little master is pregnant and loves to eat sour, and it was the queen mother who personally instructed the slave to make hawthorn horseshoe cake for the little master to eat every day!"

The queen's face was full of shock when she heard this.

The old face of the Queen Mother was surging with anger, "Emperor! This is your good queen! She looks virtuous on weekdays, but she calculates the emperor's grandson behind her back!

The queen's face was panicked, and she hurriedly looked up at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty! The concubine has been wronged! The concubine has never told that kind of thing at all! It is this cheap maid who frames the concubine!!"

The emperor's face was flat, without the slightest joy or anger, as if it was an ice sculpture, he took a deep breath, looked at the queen mother and said: "Huang Eniang, you can't make me doubt my knotted wife because of the evidence of a palace maid, right?"

The queen mother's old face was stunned, and she couldn't hide her anger, "Emperor! Now that the matter is over, do you still want to defend the queen?! Cui's was in her palace, she took too many cold things, and the fetus was stillborn, and the queen was even more deliberately deceived afterwards, and her thoughts were already clearly revealed! If it was said that Cui's fetus was not harmed by her, I am afraid that the first emperor Jiuquan would not believe it!!"

The emperor frowned unhappily, "The emperor doesn't like the queen, and there is no need to bring the imperial examination to her! What's more, the queen is the concubine chosen by the imperial examination herself! The imperial examination naturally thinks that she can be an example of the mother of the country, and she was chosen only by the mother of the world! I also ask the emperor to believe in the vision of the imperial examination!"

The Queen Mother was stunned, "Emperor, you ......"

"Your Majesty......" The queen's eyes were full of excited tears, "Thank you for believing in the innocence of your concubines!"

The emperor looked at the empress like this, and his heart was filled with deep disgust, whether the empress was innocent or not, he naturally knew very well! It's just that for the sake of the balance and stability of the inner palace, he can't abolish the empress! )