"Queen Mother, if Hu Weiyong doesn't die, the concubine won't be able to live! Since she was poisoned, the concubines have been worried every day. When eating, the concubine always felt that she had been poisoned when she looked at the food, and when she was sleeping, the concubine would suddenly be awakened, feeling that there was someone in the house who wanted to harm the concubine. ”

"The queen mother, the concubine is most worried about my general. Hu Weiyong's purpose is to harm my general, if my general is gone, the concubine's family will be finished, and the court will suffer heavy losses! ”

Mrs. Xie's eyes, swollen like peaches, were still sending tears out of the water.

"Mrs. Xie, this palace and the emperor will talk about it, and send some more officers and soldiers to guard the Zhongshan Palace."

"It's useless, those people are pervasive, like ghosts. Until now, it has not been possible to find out how the concubine and Miaojin were poisoned. ”

"This ......"

"Only by killing Hu Weiyong can the concubine's house be peaceful, and the world can live in peace!"

Outside the window of the dormitory, the sun that has not yet risen is slanting on Zhu Yuanzhang's body.

The bright yellow dragon robe on his back had turned earthy, and his gray and white hair was covered with beads of sweat.

The palace maid Ning Yu lowered her eyebrows and looked at her, standing three feet away, her hands crossed under her abdomen and kept rubbing.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't let Ning Yu inform him of his arrival, and he had already listened to a cup of tea outside the window.

"Queen, is there anyone?" Zhu Yuanzhang finally moved his feet and stepped into the dormitory, and his patience with Mrs. Xie's sprinkling in Kunning Palace had reached its limit.

Mrs. Xie panicked and was about to get up and kneel when her wide sleeves brought the astragalus lotus seed soup on the table.

The blue and white porcelain bowl flipped over and swooped towards the ground.

"Bang dang!" The soup splashed, and the blue and white fragments fled in all directions, leaving the ground in shambles.

Mrs. Xie's face turned pale, she knelt on the ground, and kept shouting: "The concubine should die!" Damn the concubine! Long live the emperor, long live, long live! ”

Ning Yu's eyes were quick, he brought a basin and a rag, and quickly cleaned up the broken bowl.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Mrs. Xie with a look of disgust.

Queen Ma hurriedly got up and grabbed Zhu Yuanzhang's hand.

"Mrs. Xie, go back first!" Empress Ma deliberately blocked Mrs. Xie, lest Zhu Yuanzhang be angry when she saw Mrs. Xie's embarrassed appearance, "Your Majesty, did you go down to court so early today?" ”

"Well, Concubine Shu said that the queen is not feeling well, so I came over to take a look." Zhu Yuanzhang's face was expressionless, without the slightest hint of warmth.

He was not very satisfied with Queen Ma, how could a dignified queen allow her courtiers to complain in front of her and blindly accommodate?

"Your Majesty, come, sit down. Look at your hot, Ning'er, go and bring a bowl of chilled sour plum soup. ”

"Yes, Queen!"

Mrs. Xie trembled and stood up and thanked her: "Emperor Xie, Queen Xie, the concubine retires!" ”

Queen Ma and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't look at her.

After drinking the iced sour plum soup, Zhu Yuanzhang calmed down a lot. Not because the iced sour plum soup eliminated Zhu Yuanzhang's anger, but because he thought of a way to do it.

He snorted, slying grin.

"What, the emperor is angry?" Queen Ma smiled, "Do you want another bowl?" ”

"Enough, one bowl is enough!"

"What did the emperor think of so happy?"

"A way to keep me and the queen quiet."

"Oh? To Mrs. Xie? ”

"Hmm." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"What's the solution?" Queen Ma faintly felt that something was wrong.

"Guess the Queen?" Zhu Yuanzhang tilted his head to the side mischievously and squinted at Queen Ma.

"Beat her eighteen boards?"

"Haha, her mouth doesn't listen to the board."

"That'...... Ban her words? ”

"Silence? The queen thought of it. She doesn't go to court again, what is forbidden? ”

"The emperor is very smart, and the concubines can't think of it." Queen Ma pretended to be angry and sat down with her back to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Alright, I'll tell the Queen. I want her to shut up forever! ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked out the window, and his grinning lips returned to their original positions.

"Your Majesty, no!" Zhu Yuanzhang blinked slowly, still staring out the window.

Queen Ma walked in front of him and blocked his sight: "Your Majesty, don't act rashly!" Don't you care about Xu Da's feelings? ”

"Hmph, it wasn't Xu Da who I killed." The two looked at each other.

"What is the difference between killing his wife and killing him?" Queen Ma put her hands on Zhu Yuanzhang's shoulders, "Heavy eight, you can't be impulsive." ”

"I must get rid of her!" Zhu Yuanzhang's deep eyes seemed to lead to a place that no one could reach.

"There are two reasons why I killed her, and each of them makes sense. If Xiuying can refute it, I can save her from death. ”

Queen Ma didn't speak, she had never seen Zhu Yuanzhang's expression when she was persuading Zhu Yuanzhang, cold as ice, hard and indestructible.

"First, scare the snake. If Mrs. Xie doesn't die, it will affect my plan to deal with Hu Weiyong. She's messing around with you, can you guess what else she's going to do? ”

Queen Ma turned around, she felt the hairpin loosen a little, and gently inserted it deep into her hair.

"Second, to atone for the father's sins. I treated Xie Zaixing like a relative, gave him an official rank, and married his two daughters to my nephew and the most outstanding general of the Ming Dynasty. He turned into a betrayer and took refuge in Zhang Shicheng......"

"Your Majesty, this has nothing to do with Mrs. Xie, how can her bear his father's sin?"

"The queen has always been virtuous, and when the prince makes a mistake, doesn't the queen come forward every time?"

Queen Ma bit her lip and blushed.

She is a generous and benevolent person, and she has always fought against Zhu Yuanzhang's indiscriminate killing of innocents, and she doesn't want Zhu Yuanzhang to be charged with cruelty and ruthlessness.

"Xiuying, sit down." Zhu Yuanzhang took Queen Ma's hand, and his voice softened, "You don't have to worry about these things." You see that your face has always been so bad recently, and you have taken care of yourself well is the greatest contribution to me and to Daming. ”

"Your Majesty!" Queen Ma's tears burst out of her eyes because of Zhu Yuanzhang's pity, "Can you ...... Don't kill Mrs. Xie? I'm afraid of ...... in the court."

"With me here, don't be afraid of anything. Remember the past? When you first married me, you were afraid of rats! Later, I fought in the front, you commanded in the rear, and the food was delivered to the front, and you were so hungry that you dared to eat mice! Ha ha! ”

"The Emperor's ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang gently patted Queen Ma's hand.

Queen Ma gradually quieted down.

Empress Ma's personal palace maid Ning Yu came to the Zhongshan Palace, alone at noon with the fire umbrella high.

Mrs. Xie was both surprised and happy, she always had a little thought, Ning Yu brought her good news.

"Ning Yu, why are you here? Is the Queen Mother okay? ”

"The Queen Mother is well. The queen asked the slave maid to bring a message to Mrs. Xie. ”

"What?" Mrs. Xie's expectant eyes shone brighter than the light outside the house.

"The queen said, 'You have just recovered, and it is best for you to go out to rest in the field.' ”

"Oh, no, I'm fine, I'm fine now." Mrs. Xie was a little disappointed.

"The Queen Mother asks you to remember her words." Ning Yu's eyes revealed a look that Mrs. Xie cherished.

"Thank you, Queen Mother!" Mrs. Xie only hung her head and did not carefully torture the words brought by the queen mother.

Three days later, Zhu Yuanzhang invited Xu to drink at the Qianqing Palace.

This day was another radiant day for Mrs. Xie.

She is a hopeful, positive and optimistic person.

The chessboard and wine in the Qianqing Palace were ready, and Zhu Yuanzhang sat quietly on the wooden couch thoughtfully.

"The emperor forgives the sin, the minister is late!" Xu Da clenched his hands into fists, bowed his head and bent over, and walked into the house.

"Here, next game!" Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the chessboard.

Xu Da still sat down with his head down.

"Drink this glass of wine first, and give you courage." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and pushed the wine glass in his hand in front of Xu Da.

"Emperor Xie!" Xu Da hurriedly picked up the wine glass in front of him.

After a glass of wine, Xu Da really relaxed.

"Hehe, I can't let you drink anymore. Now it's just right, lest you lose to me and say you're drunk and confused. ”

"The emperor's chess skills are excellent, but his subordinates are not the emperor, so he can only pretend to be confused."

"Hahaha, you, you, cunning old man!"

"I don't dare."

"King Yan and I said that his princess is virtuous and intelligent, and he is very grateful to you, the old man, for cultivating such a good daughter!"

"The emperor praises falsely, and the king of Yan praises falsely! The little girl is virtuous, and that is also because King Yan is well trained, she knows how to be a wife and a mother. ”

"Well, husbands and wives always influence each other. I and the Empress have been the same for decades. The queen can see my hard work, and I can also see the queen's difficulties. ”

"The love between the emperor and the queen is a good story in the world, and the people have made up songs and recited them everywhere."

"Oh? What ballads? Zhu Yuanzhang asked curiously.

"Hehe, the minister is stupid, the specific minister can't memorize it, the main thing is that the emperor and the queen are mandarin ducks, where the emperor flies, the queen also flies......"

Xu Da stopped suddenly, lowered his eyes, and slowly withdrew his hand that was about to fall.

He knew he had said the wrong thing.

"What's wrong?" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know what to do.

"Damn it! The emperor is a dragon, and the queen is a phoenix......"

"Hahaha! Tiande, am I so unreasonable? The people are boasting about me and the queen, and it's too late for me to be happy! ”

"Yes, the emperor is magnanimous! Love the people like children! ”

"Only when the people feel that I am good, can my country sit firmly." Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of Xu Da's panic to be interrupted and left behind.

It's not yet noon, and the sun is already enthusiastic. He relentlessly tests everything on earth.

The Supreme Palace never had a sense of superiority in his eyes, on the contrary, except for the Imperial Garden, the bluestone avenue and the roof of the glazed palace without vegetation seemed to crack at any time.

Queen Ma was anxious and walked on the avenue that stretched infinitely from north to south.

After learning that Xu Da had entered the palace, she put down everything in her hands, and she didn't have time to wait for Long Yuan's preparations, so she ran to Yaoyue Palace with Ning Yu.

She knew why Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to recruit Xu Da into the palace, and she also knew what tragedy would happen in the Zhongshan Palace.

She did her best to save Mrs. Xie's life, but it seemed to have little effect.

If she could, she would once again stop Zhu Yuanzhang from killing people and prevent the tragedy from happening.