Chapter Seventy-Three: The Day of the Sacrifice
From Zhao Qirui's words, Du Qinxin learned a shocking secret.
Today is Xu Guifei's death day, and Xu Guifei did not die of illness!
Zhao Qirui's sadness made her feel very distressed. The only thing he could do was to be by his side and mourn his deceased mother with him.
A pot of pear blossom stuff, a bouquet of peony flowers.
Zhao Qirui knelt in front of the mausoleum, as if he had endless words and endless worries.
After Mama Qin came, she knelt on the ground and knocked three times.
Before he could speak, tears had fallen: "Concubine Niangniang, the slave has come to see you!" ”
Seeing this, Zhao Qirui wanted to lead Du Qinxin away. When she understood, she kowtowed again.
"Concubine Niangniang, my daughter-in-law will come to see you again when I have time!"
After the two of them left, they did not return to Lingyun Courtyard, and were led by Zhao Qirui to a hill behind.
One after the other, step by step.
In the past, Zhao Qirui would come here to stay here for a while after the death of Concubine Xu, and today is no exception, but there is one more person beside him.
"Don't you have anything to ask the king?"
was startled by Zhao Qirui, who suddenly stopped.
"Lord Wang... The concubine deserves to die, but she misremembered the sacrifice day of the concubine! Du Qin regretted that he didn't ask clearly, Princess Rui didn't know that her late mother-in-law had a sacrifice day, isn't it a joke!
"You think it's three days later?"
Du Qinxin nodded, with a guilty face, "Hmm! ”
"Not only do you think, but everyone in the world thinks!" Zhao Qirui mentioned this matter with disdain in his eyes.
"Before the mother concubine was poisoned, the father was trying to abolish the poisonous woman, and after the mother passed away, the ministers of the court and the central government persuaded the father to give up the idea of concubine. In order to stabilize Jiang Liyue, who held the military power at that time, that is, Jiang Zheng's father, postponed the date of the death of his mother by three days, and even the coffin buried in the imperial mausoleum was only a crown! All this is so that the world will not criticize that poisonous woman. ”
Speaking of this, Zhao Qirui laughed bitterly at himself, "It's also the incompetence of this king!" Nothing else can be done except to take the mother concubine away from the palace! ”
Du Qinxin always thought that Xu Guifei died of a sudden illness as the world said, but today he learned from Zhao Qirui that she was murdered by others.
"Lord, why didn't the emperor call the shots for the concubine back then?"
"This is also something that this king has not understood for so many years! Even Mama Qin kept silent about this matter, only saying that the mother concubine was sick! But this king didn't believe it, on the day of his mother's death, this king went to her bedroom, and there was no discomfort, why did he catch the disease at night? ”
The incomprehension and hatred that had accumulated in Zhao Qirui's heart for many years did not hide it in front of Du Qinxin.
"Then the prince is suspicious of the queen?" There was no one around, and Du Qinxin didn't take care of it. Over the years, the fight between him and the crown prince is well known.
"You only know that she is the mother of a country, born in a general, but you don't know how despicable the intrigues and tricks behind her back are! If it weren't for the mother concubine who persuaded her father back then, do you think she could become the queen of the middle palace? ”
Du Qinxin was so shocked by the past that he didn't know one after another that he didn't know that he didn't know what to say, it turned out that what he knew was nothing more than hearsay.
"When my father had just ascended the throne, the court was unstable. The emperor's grandmother didn't like my mother's concubine, so she hoped that my father would marry the daughter of the general Jiang Liyue, but my father didn't follow him. The imperial grandmother secretly put pressure on the mother concubine, hoping that the mother concubine could abdicate and make way for Xian, and the mother concubine persecuted her father to death for the sake of the country, and the father married her! Unexpectedly, not only did she not dare to read it, but she also suppressed her mother many times as a queen. The father had no choice but to endure it, deliberately snubbing his mother, thinking that she would restrain her. But she is a femme fatale, and one day I don't know how to know that my father married her because of the princess, and she casually found a reason to give her mother to death. When my father learned about it, he wanted to abolish the queen in a fit of anger. Who would have thought that the mother concubine would be a few days later..." Speaking of this, everything was like in front of him, Zhao Qirui closed his eyes tightly, and then opened them, his eyes were full of crystal.
"Lord Wang, don't be too sad, the concubine believes that one day this matter will come to light." Du Qin knew that his pale and weak words could not comfort his mother's revenge at all, but he was sad and sad, and Du Qin felt distressed.
"This king told you this, are you afraid?" Zhao Qirui's confused eyes stared at Du Qinxin, as if he wanted to penetrate her heart through her eyes.
"The concubine is not afraid!" Du Qin's resolute and affirmative answer provoked the corners of Zhao Qirui's mouth.
"This king doesn't look like he is talking in his heart, didn't he persuade this king to stop two days ago?"
"How can this be the same, a few days ago, the concubine body was just ruined by them, but the matter of the noble concubine Niangniang is a blood feud with our Rui Wangfu!"
"There is no evidence of the matter of the concubine, but she did it to slander you, and this king will naturally not give up! Rest for a day tomorrow, and when you return to Beijing the day after tomorrow, it's time for the king to settle accounts with them! ”
Zhao Qirui took Du Qinxin to take a look at the beautiful scenery in the back mountain before returning to Lingyun Courtyard. Although there are still many puzzles in my heart, I think that there will be opportunities in the future, so I pressed the curiosity in my heart and didn't ask more.
After returning to Lingyun Courtyard, after lunch, Mama Qin came to Du Qinxin with red eyes.
"Princess Niangniang, the old slave is really uncomfortable and wants to come and talk to you"
Du Qinxin asked her to get up and take a seat.
"Mama, you have to pay attention to your body, don't be too sad." It can be seen that Mama Qin has a deep friendship with the concubine.
"For the first time in so many years, I paid tribute to the concubine Niangniang, hey... The old slave is useless! "Every time I mention Mama Qin, I can't stop crying.
remembered that Zhao Qirui had spoken to him, "Mama Qin, do you know what happened back then?" ”
Suddenly, hearing Du Qinxin mention this, Mama Qin replied and kept silent.
"The princess can't tell the old slave what she asked! Niangniang only needs to take care of the prince and add a few small sons to our palace for a big deal! ”
The meaning in Mama Qin's words is that she knows, but she doesn't say it.
"Mama, you know that the prince has been obsessed with that matter all these years, why don't you tell him?"
"Niangniang, now that our prince has been crowned king, when we have a fief, let's move out of the capital and stay away from these deceits!"
Du Qin couldn't ask anything when he saw her so afraid. Also, if she said it so easily, Zhao Qirui would not have found out what happened back then all these years.
The capital Rui Wangfu.
It took Zhuang Qingyuan a day of hard work to finally find a place to hold the woman. Although I know where it is, how to do it without being detected is a problem.
She quietly handed Yun Jin a signal at night and asked her to come over.
The two conspired for a night and decided to poison them.
The next day, the green kite calculated the time to deliver the meal, and went to the way to deliver the food, and when the person who delivered the meal came, she pretended to fall accidentally and let her help her up, and the little maid behind her took advantage of her unpreparedness to put the poison into the meal.
If Yun Jin was here, he would have found that all this was too smooth, but Qing Kite was scared, and hurried back to Liuli Pavilion after succeeding.
Sure enough, after a while, it was rumored that someone had been poisoned. One afternoon, the frightened green kite was restless. I'm afraid that someone will find out that I did it.