Chapter 471: Liu's Aunt and Nephew
"The Queen Mother?" The queen said to herself: "Has this news reached the queen mother?" ”
The red note was stunned for a moment and said: "Queen Mother, the second prince is the queen mother's favorite and most beloved grandson, and it is not surprising that her hometown knows, ...... do you think?" ”
The queen coughed twice and said, "Come in." ”
"Yes!" The red note hurriedly said loudly: "Hurry up and welcome the Queen Mother into the hall!" ”
It stands to reason that both the queen and the red note should get up in person and go outside to greet them, but now that the queen's physical strength has not recovered, the red note is worried about the queen, so she can only ask the palace people outside the palace to invite the queen mother into the palace.
Empress Dowager Liu entered the palace and was invited to the cabinet by the palace people, this just bypassed the screen, and the queen had not had time to confess to the queen mother, and the surprised words came out first: "The queen mother!" Are you ...... This...... What's going on? ”
The red note itself wanted to get up and salute the queen mother, but as soon as the queen's words came out, the red note looked up and was stunned for a while.
At this moment, the queen mother has white hair, her face is full of decadent folds and furrows, her complexion is yellow, and her eyes are bloodshot, as if her spiritual energy has been drained overnight and she is too old, and her appearance is much worse than the queen lying on the bed at the moment, so the queen and the red note are full of surprise.
The Queen Mother was asked by the queen and said helplessly: "You still don't know? ”
The queen was stunned for a moment and said, "Could it be that my aunt heard something?" ”
The Queen Mother sighed and said, "What happened last night?" ”
The queen shook her head and said, "My niece doesn't know. "To be honest, the queen really doesn't know what happened last night.
The Queen Mother shook her head, raised her hand and trembled, "You...... You. Hey, why are you a mother so confused, do you know that Wei'er and Qi Shen were put in prison this morning! ”
As soon as the queen heard the queen mother's words, she knew that the queen mother should know no less than her, so she coughed twice, sat up and said, "Auntie, look at my niece now, if I didn't know that Wei'er had an accident, would my niece be like this?" ”
"You...... Hey, since you know that Wei'er has an accident, why don't you find a way to rescue it? The Queen Mother was obviously anxious.
"Auntie and niece want to too. But now the news is blocked. The niece just knew that King Shen and Wei'er were taken to the prison together, but for what and what happened last night, the niece didn't know. How do you ask your niece to save her? "The queen is also anxious. As he spoke, he coughed violently. There was a faint blood stain on the corner of his mouth again.
Hongjian immediately said nervously: "Queen Mother, don't worry, don't worry." Don't be angry, you've just woken up! ”
The queen held the hand of the red note and finally stabilized it a little before saying, "Ahem, auntie, don't ...... Ahem...... I'm too anxious, now that the emperor has returned, last night it was the harem where the concubine used the phoenix seal to impose martial law, so this matter must not be simple, of course the niece wants to save Wei'er, but don't all this have to be smoothed out and discussed in the long run, the red note quickly went to help the queen mother sit down. ”
When the queen spoke, the red note immediately got up and helped the queen mother to sit on the chair nearest to the queen and said: "The queen mother, please sit down first, listen to the queen's thoughts first, our mother has just heard some news, and now she is already thinking of a way, you see this is Liu Ill who went to find out the news, and he also came back from the prison." ”
The red note originally wanted to appease the queen mother's emotions first, so that the queen could breathe for a while, but before her words fell, the queen mother raised her eyebrows and said anxiously: "He went to the prison?" ”
"This ......" the red note didn't know how to explain it, so he said: "Liu Ill, you can explain the situation to the Queen Mother." ”
Liu Yi could only nod and take a few steps forward and said respectfully: "Empress Dowager Qi, the slave has gone to the prison." ”
"What happened to King Shen and Wei'er?" The Queen Mother immediately cared.
"This ...... This slave is not very clear, the slave trust relationship makes the silver can only go to the gate of the prison, there are still people from the Royal Forest Army and the Jingji Battalion guarding here, the slave can't get close at all, listen to the people at the door say that if there is no emperor's order, no one can enter, and the slave naturally can't enter, but the slave knows that King Shen is fine, but the second prince seems to be a little uncomfortable, not sure whether he is sick or injured. Liu said truthfully.
Liu Ai's words fell, and the Queen Mother's eyebrows flashed a moment of relaxation, but it was replaced by anxiety in an instant, but this moment of relaxation was seen by the red note guarding the side, and she was full of doubts: This situation is urgent, why is the Queen Mother's eyebrows loose?
Before the red note had time to think about it, the queen behind him coughed again: "Ahem...... Ahem...... What the? Wei'er is still injured? ”
Liu Yi turned to the queen and said uncertainly: "I just know that the second prince is uncomfortable, but I can't be sure yet." ”
"It seems that this is really the emperor's will." The Queen Mother was somewhat decadent and miserable.
"Auntie, one of them is the emperor's son and the other is the emperor's brother, what can happen to make the emperor so angry?" The queen was puzzled.
The Queen Mother thought a little and said: "I'm afraid it has nothing to do with last night's martial law, what has the queen done abnormally recently?" ”
The queen was stunned and said, "What does my aunt mean?" ”
The Queen Mother sighed and said, "Think about it, why are the two people who had an accident today, Qi Shen and Wei'er?" ”
The queen lowered her head and thought for a long time before she said uncertainly: "Auntie, since it was rumored that Wei'er and Murong Heqi of King Shen's family had broken their sleeves, my niece has explicitly forbidden Wei'er to have any contact with King Shen. ”
"If something happens together, it means that although they are no longer close on the surface, they still maintain close contact secretly, at least what happened after that incident made Wei'er and King Shen have to be connected again, hey...... Could it be the emperor's appointment of a prince? The Queen Mother seemed to have thought of something.
"Lichu?" The queen seemed to be a little uncertain and said: "Don't hide it from my aunt, the matter of the establishment of the prince is naturally a big blow to Wei'er, but since the emperor announced the establishment of the prince, the niece has also seen Wei'er once." And that time Wei'er still came and went in a hurry, nothing important said, niece I am not sure whether yes or no, after all, to what extent of his relationship with King Shen, he has always been reluctant to say more, every time his niece asks, he always smiles and prevaricates that it is just an ordinary nephew Uncle Wang is close, although my niece and I are worried, but I have always been safe, but now I really didn't expect them to have an accident together. Auntie, your words reminded me. I wonder what my aunt thinks? ”
"Since the death of the first emperor, King Shen has been under house arrest in disguise in the palace of King Shen and does not ask about world affairs, neither participating in court politics nor any real power, and has been quiet for 20 years. Now suddenly imprisoned. And it also affected Wei'er. Hongu can't figure out why! The Queen Mother muttered to herself, as if she was answering the queen's doubts, and as if she was hiding something.
Since the queen mother mentioned the incident when the first emperor died, the queen said by the way: "Aunt." In the year of the death of the first emperor, why was King Shen reprimanded and placed under house arrest, and the niece remembered that his father and his old man were also belittled and dismissed, aunt, why was that time? ”
"What...... What the? The Queen Mother seemed to be asked a little unprepared.
"Auntie?" The queen was a little puzzled by the queen mother's confusion at the moment, no, to be precise, it aroused the doubts she wanted to ask in the early years, but the time was long, the affairs were busy, and she was suppressed again, and now the queen mother's words reminded the queen of what to uh.
"Auntie? Aunt! The queen looked at the Queen Mother and seemed to be distracted, so she shouted a few times in a row to recall the Queen Mother's thoughts.
The Queen Mother pinched her hands and said a little crampedly: "The palace doesn't know about the events of that day, but I just know that your father and Qi Shen provoked the first emperor because of some previous things, and the first emperor was angry, so they will deal with it like this." The Queen Mother's words were very evasive.
"Aunt, the first emperor has always been merciful, and it will not be a simple thing to make his old man angry, you also know that the niece was most worried about the conflict between her father and Qi You at that time, and now I think about it, could it be that my father and King Shen really had a head-on conflict with Qi You, so it was dealt with by the emperor, and now, could it be that King Shen had thoughts that he shouldn't have, and he rushed into the emperor again, and even Wei'er was implicated?" The queen remembered the previous events, and even the current events boldly guessed.
"No, it won't! No, it won't! As soon as the queen's words fell, the queen mother shouted out of control.
Such a gaffe made the queen's heart tighten: Could it be that the Queen Mother knew something, and now she won't really have anything to hide from her.
Thinking of this, the queen sighed and said, "Auntie, why are you so determined? ”
The Queen Mother also seemed to have discovered her own gaffe, so she slightly retracted her mind and said, "This ...... This one...... This matter can't be rashly asserted, after all, Qi Shen is already under house arrest, how can he have such a ability? ”
The queen stared at the queen mother for a long time before she said, "Then what does my aunt mean?" But the niece you reminded, now could it be that Wei'er has some misdeeds that implicate King Shen in turn? Auntie, do you mean that? ”
"No...... No, this palace doesn't mean anything, now is not the time to guess whose responsibility it is, now I am afraid that only the emperor himself knows the truth, this palace thinks ......" The queen mother glanced at the queen and continued: "It's time to ask the emperor clearly." ”
"Ask the emperor?" The queen was a little puzzled and frightened: "How do you ask?" What to ask? Now, I'm afraid the emperor won't see my niece. ”
"But if you don't ask to see her, Wei'er may really have no hope!" The Queen Mother reminded: "You have to know that Wei'er is now the hope of our Liu family, if something happens to him, will the emperor still be polite to our aunt and nephew?" Can you sit comfortably as queen again? ”
"Auntie!" I don't know why, the queen always thinks that today's queen mother is very strange, on weekdays, the queen mother is always the calmest, most stable person, never rash action, but now she persuaded her to go to the emperor to inquire before the matter is clear, such an abnormal behavior makes the queen have to wonder what happened to the queen mother today, is it just worried about Wei'er, worried about the decline of the Liu family?
"Queen, for Wei'er's sake that she can't talk about etiquette now, you have to act quickly, you must see the emperor before the emperor deals with the opinions, ask about the situation, and it is best to have the opportunity to meet the children in the prison, so that it will be possible to rescue them." The Queen Mother said earnestly.
"But ......" the queen was very uncertain. (To be continued.) )