Chapter Forty-Seven: Flowers Like Blood Now
"The queen mother, the sons also feel that this method is acceptable." The queen also said something on the side, and An Su smiled at her.
"Well, if you can catch up, it proves that those palace maids should not die, if you can't catch up, just go over and collect their corpses!" The Queen Mother sighed, which can be regarded as a compromise.
It's just that An Su caught the deep meaning of these words, and she suddenly remembered the rumors and Cheng Jiao who had just gone out of the palace, could they be that they were ordered by the Queen Mother to deal with those palace maids?
"Queen Mother, I don't know where those palace maids are now?" An Su was in a hurry and hurriedly asked.
"The mourning family has said that it is providence whether they can catch up or not, and as for where they are, it depends on whether you can find them or not." The Queen Mother stretched out her hand, and Songhe hurriedly helped her up, "The mourning family is tired, you have to rest for a while, you go and toss!" ”
"Mama Songhe......" An Su thought that the Queen Mother was reluctant to say, maybe she could know from Songhe's mouth, but she was interrupted as soon as she called out.
"Ansu, it's already merciful for the Queen Mother to give them a hope, don't get an inch anymore, hurry up and find someone!"
"No." An Su had no choice but to try to explore the place by herself, but time was pressing, and it was several lives!
Walking out of Changle Palace full of worry, the queen came to An Su's side: "Do you have a way, there are places about people everywhere in this palace, if you want to find it all over, I'm afraid that everyone will die after you find it." ”
"You can't look for it like this." An Su lowered his head and thought, and suddenly raised his eyes, "Queen Mother, do you know what places near Changle Palace are where the emperor will never go?" ”
"The emperor doesn't come to Changle Palace often, but when it comes to places that he never goes...... the queen thought about it seriously, and suddenly realized, "That's the room where the former emperor and Mrs. Qi were imprisoned." ”
Indeed, the emperor once mentioned that he was alienated from the Queen Mother because of this, and naturally he would not go to such a place again. An Su hurriedly greeted the queen, and several people went to the room together.
"Ansu, why are you so sure they're going to be in the room?" The queen often doesn't go out in the Jiaofang Palace, and she has a little difficulty running a few steps.
"The emperor has a good heart, if he knew that the woman who was pregnant with his own flesh and blood was imprisoned, he would definitely not let it go. The queen mother knows the emperor, she imprisons these pregnant palace maids, and she will definitely not want the emperor to see them again, so she will definitely choose a place where the emperor will never set foot. Ansu explained to the queen as she quickened her pace.
Hurried to the room that the queen said, An Su found that it was just a dilapidated thatched hut, and there was not even a serious palace wall. There was a stench wafting out of it, and it was far away from the serious palace.
Ansu pinched her nose and looked closer, and there were already a lot of dark red things on the floor of the room, and there were many people's hair scattered on them. The queen also saw it behind An Su, and immediately stopped walking forward.
"Let's stay here first, and the slave will go over and take a look." Ansu saw the queen's timidity, so she volunteered to go first.
It looked a little scary outside, but when I walked in, I realized that although the dark red thing was good blood, it had dried up for a long time, and it should be some age. Looking at the hair again, it looks like it has only fallen recently, and there are traces of people living in the house, thinking that those palace maids were indeed here, but now there is no trace.
An Su turned around and went out: "Queen Mother, they are not here." ”
In addition to this place, the queen can't think of other places where the emperor will not go, she is not close to the emperor in the first place, and she does not know much about the emperor's thoughts.
Just when An Su and the queen were worried, they suddenly heard a horsewhip from the palace road not far away. There were very few people here, and the carriage would not easily pass here, and both of them knew that the sound must have something to do with the palace maids.
Following the direction of the voice to the palace road, a carriage happened to rush towards them quickly. An Su didn't have time to think, so he stood directly in the middle of the palace road and stopped the galloping carriage.
"Who's in the carriage?" An Su waited until the carriage stopped in front of her before questioning the eunuch who was driving, "The queen mother is here, why don't you let everyone inside come down quickly." ”
The eunuch rolled out of the car with a drum, and he was still trembling: "The slave has seen the queen's mother, and the queen's mother is extremely happy." ”
"Who's inside?" The queen walked slowly, and only then was she helped forward by Lixin.
"This ......," the eunuch looked back in fear, unable to say anything.
An Su guessed that if these palace maids died in the palace, it would not be easy to deal with them later, perhaps Hu Yu and Cheng Jiao instructed the eunuch to take them outside the palace and dispose of them.
Thinking like this, An Su reprimanded: "The queen mother and I were both ordered by the queen mother to come here to rescue the trapped palace maids, and by the way, they were not guilty and sent out of the palace to be settled." If it is they who are carrying the carriage, please draw the curtain so that the queen can see it. ”
The eunuch glanced back a few times, still at a loss, until the man inside pulled the curtain and walked out.
"Ansu, it's me."
An Su was really taken aback, and the one who came out of the carriage turned out to be the current emperor Liu Ying. But although he was surprised, the number of rites could not be forgotten, An Su hurriedly saluted, and the queen behind also bowed according to the number of rites.
"The queen is also there!" Liu Ying only lightly mentioned the queen, then turned to An Su and asked, "You are also here to save them?" ”
Even though An Su was in Changle Palace, he had trusted Liu Ying since he talked to him last time. Liu Ying didn't know where this feeling came from, but in this deep palace, there were very few people who could keep a little kindness while preserving themselves. As the emperor, Liu Ying is counted as one, and An Su is also counted as one.
"The Queen Mother intended to kill her, and the slave and maid worked hard to turn around, and fortunately, the Queen Mother said on the side, and the Queen Mother allowed us to come. If you can find these palace ladies before they are executed, you can save their lives and send them out of the palace to live. Ansu told the truth.
"I also got the news of Cheng Jiao, so I learned that they were locked up here, and now I want to send them out of the palace." Liu Ying breathed a long sigh of relief, "I thought it was the queen mother who sent someone, but it turned out to be you who had the same purpose as me." ”
"Your Majesty, the time is urgent, I don't know if the Queen Mother will suddenly change her mind, so let's send them out quickly!" An Su reminded him, and Liu Yingcai waved his hand to the eunuch and motioned for him to continue to send the palace maids out.
"I can only accompany you here, this is close to the palace gate, you can go out of the palace with confidence! In the future, I will entrust someone to bring you the money for you. Liu Ying said a few words into the carriage, and the sound of sobbing that she was trying to suppress came out.
An Su sighed in her heart, these palace maids also suffered, once they were favored by the emperor, they should have flown on the branches, but they ended up like this, it was really a pity. It's just that it is rare to be able to save her life under the power of the Queen Mother.
"I only hope that they can give birth to children safely after leaving the palace, and it will not be in vain to waste these thoughts." Liu Ying watched the carriage run towards the palace gate, and couldn't help sighing.
The queen had not spoken, and An Su turned to look at her, only to see her head bowed, her hands on the corners of her clothes, as if she was engaged in a fierce psychological struggle. An Su suddenly felt a sense of fear in her heart, and she felt that something seemed to be wrong.
Only then did Liu Ying say that Cheng Jiao told him where the palace maids were, but Cheng Jiao was clearly sent by the Queen Mother to deal with those palace maids. An Su knows very well that Cheng Jiao is absolutely loyal to the Queen Mother, and he will not come to inform the emperor about this for no reason. Even if he really wanted to tell him, as the queen mother's henchman, he should have known the place where the palace maids were locked up in the past, why did he say it at this time?
"Your Majesty, something is wrong." An Su raised her head and asked worriedly, "When Manager Cheng next to the Queen Mother went to inform you about this, did he say anything else?" ”
Liu Ying saw An Su's serious expression, so she thought about it seriously: "No, I just told me that the queen mother was going to execute them, and suggested that I quickly arrange a carriage to send them out of the palace." ”
"Then dare to ask the emperor, who prepared the carriage to send them out? Who is the eunuch who drove the car? ”
"The carriage was prepared by Cheng Jiao, and the eunuch was also recommended by Cheng Jiao." Liu Ying also realized that something was wrong when she said this. He was so anxious when he heard the news that he didn't think about some of the details, and only thought about the safety of the palace maids.
"Not good!" An Su thought of a possibility, and hurriedly chased in the direction of the carriage out of the palace, and the emperor and queen also followed after realizing it.
Sure enough, An Su ran to the gate of the palace, looking out through the palace gate that was about to close, and the carriage, which was still galloping like a fly, had collided with an old tree not far from the palace wall, and the wreckage was shattered. The palace maids who were still sobbing in the carriage just now had obvious dagger marks on their necks, and even if they left the palace, none of them survived.
The trembling driving eunuch before has also disappeared. A figure running among the weeds in the distance looked a little like him.
An Su looked at this miserable scene, and the palace gate gradually closed in front of her, separating those palace maids who had gone out outside, and leaving An Su and the living inside. Her hands trembled involuntarily, it was not that she had never looked directly at death before, but there was no shock like this one, and An Su's eyes were moist.
Although the emperor and queen came late, they also saw this scene before the palace door closed. Liu Ying clenched his fists tightly, his nails almost embedded in the flesh, as if he didn't feel pain, he just stared at the closed palace door.
An Su took a deep breath and turned around slowly, staring at the queen's dodging gaze with blazing eyes: "Queen Mother, you know all this, right?" When you spoke to the Queen Mother in Changle Palace, you already knew everything that was going to happen, am I right? ”