368 The Pit Concubine (2nd Watch)
"Who is this stupid boy?"
Empress Dowager Zhuang asked nonchalantly.
Gu Chengfeng found out that Empress Dowager Zhuang was also over, and stood behind Gu Jiao.
Gu Chengfeng and Empress Dowager Zhuang had a relationship, that is, when he and Gu Jiao were chased and killed by Tang Ming near the palace, that time Empress Dowager Zhuang appeared in time to save them.
Empress Dowager Zhuang "chopped" the two of them as assassins, which made Tang Ming relieved from then on.
To say that the inspiration for pretending to be an assassin and being killed came from the Empress Dowager Zhuang.
I have to say that being able to control the government for many years, Empress Dowager Zhuang does have some ability.
That time Gu Chengfeng wore a mask, so Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't recognize him at a glance as Gu Jiao's "friend" that night.
However, in the next second, Empress Dowager Zhuang guessed: "Oh, the one who went to the Marshal's Mansion." β
Are the eyes so poisonous?
Can this also be guessed?
Obviously, I have changed my voice when I speak!
If Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't even have any skills, she would have been in the harem of the court for so many years, she glanced at Gu Chengfeng lightly: "What is your relationship with Jiaojiao?" β
Why do you think this is a proposition?
Gu Chengfeng looked at Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao held her hands and stood by.
Yes! This girl, throw it away when you run out! It's so unconscionable!
"Empress Dowager." He stood up and bowed, "The grass people Gu Chengfeng have seen the Queen Mother." β
All surnamed Gu.
Empress Dowager Zhuang looked at Gu Jiao: "Your brother?" β
Gu Jiao refused to admit it.
Empress Dowager Zhuang nodded, well, it seems to be.
She still knows Gu Jiao very well, it's not the wild flowers and weeds outside, she is still waiting to hold her little great-grandson.
After the Empress Dowager Zhuang finished asking, she walked away without looking back, and did not continue to interrogate Gu Chengfeng, for example, he was Gu Jiao's elder brother, why did he know martial arts, why did he enter the palace.
Gu Chengfeng was a little confused: "...... The queen mother's temperament is quite chic. β
Father-in-law Qin's Wang Bacai really made them stunned, but Wang Ba's shell was hard, and it was no big deal, but he was a little frightened, and he shrank in his shell all afternoon.
Gu Jiao treated Gu Chengfeng's shoulder injury and asked him for a thousand taels of silver, which was called medical gold.
Gu Chengfeng, who has not yet heated up a thousand taels of silver tickets: "......"
Gu Chengfeng looked at her with a headache: "In other words, you would rather give up the holy decree than save me from the hands of Long Yingwei, shouldn't it be the gluttony of this thousand taels of silver tickets?" β
After all, if he died, the body would definitely be disposed of, and she wouldn't be able to get the silver ticket.
Gu Jiao's expression on her face!
Gu Chengfeng understood, and he was suddenly a little moved in his heart, this girl turned out to be a little conscientious, not full of thoughts that only knew how to squeeze him.
Gu Jiao analyzed seriously: "If you die, I will lose a thousand taels, but if you live, you can earn me more than a thousand taels!" As for the Divine Decree, aren't you the number one thief? I'll steal it back next time! β
Gu Chengfeng: "......"
So why is he moved?
The two had lunch at Empress Dowager Zhuang's Renshou Palace.
Gu Chengfeng couldn't treat Empress Dowager Zhuang as an ordinary aunt, and she ate extremely restrained at a meal, but Gu Jiao kept chattering, and her cheeks were bulging, which reminded people of a little fat squirrel he once caught in the back mountain.
In the nunnery, Concubine Jing waited quietly while knocking on the wooden fish and chanting.
However, she did not wait for the news that Mama Cai had captured the assassin, but waited for the bad news that Mama Cai was detained and interrogated by the emperor.
"Concubine Niang." The little nun who had reported the news for her knelt behind her and looked at her worriedly, "What should I do?" Mama Cai was arrested...... Why did Your Majesty arrest Mama Cai? Isn't Mama Cai from our nunnery? Your Majesty is not ......"
The little nun said a series of grievances in one breath, and in the end she burst into tears.
The palace has always been unable to hide things, and one point of things can be said to be ten out of eight points.
There is no need for Renshou Palace to spread anything at all, the arrest of Mama Cai is enough to make people speculate whether the relationship between Concubine Jing and the emperor is really tense.
"Concubine Niangniang, let's go and plead with Your Majesty, and beg Your Majesty to let Mama Cai go...... Mama Cai is old...... I can't bear the ...... of those hardships."
The little nun has not been in the palace for a long time, but she has heard about the torture in the palace that is worse than death, and she was arrested and interrogated.
She was worried.
She was also afraid.
I was afraid that this big hug would collapse and crush her to death in the same building.
As night fell, the nunnery was silent, and the sobs of the little nun gradually melted into the night.
Concubine Jing didn't do anything, she didn't even send someone to inquire about Mama Cai's news, she just sat quietly in the Buddha hall, her hands folded, as if she was worshipping the Buddha devoutly, and as if she was just sitting dry.
The little nun finally couldn't stand it anymore, she had only heard of the cruelty of the palace, but she had not personally experienced it.
She choked up and ran to Huaqing Palace.
"Let me meet Your Majesty! The toffee lady has not eaten or drunk all day...... And so on...... And so on...... She's going to get sick......"
She cried loudly.
This is a big no-no in the palace.
She didn't know how lucky she was that she wasn't dragged down to the palace rules.
"What's going on outside?" The emperor put down the fold in his hand, pinched his eyebrows and asked.
Gonggong Wei said in a low voice: "It's the little master next to the concubine, say it...... The concubine did not eat all day. β
The Emperor's brow furrowed.
Gonggong Wei observed his words and said, "Your Majesty, do you want a slave to take a look?" β
The emperor opened his mouth.
He hesitated, and for a moment he wanted to nod.
Then he was frightened by his own thoughts, in the past, when he heard the news of Concubine Jing, he would always immediately put down his official duties to visit her, but now that she has not entered a drop of water all day, he is not so anxious.
He shouldn't have been.
He closed his eyes and said, "I'm going to go to the nunnery." β
Grandpa Wei: "Yes." β
The emperor didn't sit in a sedan chair, but walked over with Gonggong Wei by himself.
Concubine Jing liked to be quiet, so the site at that time was very remote, and because of the rush to use it overnight, the nunnery itself was not large.
At this moment, it was swallowed up by the night, and it seemed more and more insignificant.
When the little nun saw the emperor coming, she was pleasantly surprised: "Your Majestyβ"
The emperor didn't look at her, only raised his hand lightly.
The little nun was instantly shocked by the power of the true dragon.
The lamp in the Buddha hall was on, and a lonely figure danced on the window paper, and the emperor walked over.
In the deserted Buddhist hall, Concubine Jing sat alone on the ground, she tried to straighten her back, but she seemed to be unable to withstand the passage of time and the passage of time, and her body had a trace of twilight decadence.
The emperor's heart suddenly became a little sour: "Mother concubine ......"
Concubine Jing didn't look back, she said coldly and calmly, "Your Majesty, please go back if you have nothing to do." β
The emperor listened to her emotionless voice, and the sourness in his heart became more and more intense: "The mother concubine is blaming me......"
Concubine Jing laughed at herself: "What do you blame? Do you blame you for taking away Mama Cai without saying a word, or do you blame you for having a nightmare when I was a flood beast and the queen mother was your close mother, or did you obviously pick me up from outside the palace, but you hurriedly sent me out of the Huaqing Palace? Your Majesty, what am I? How many mothers in the world are called by their own sons? β
She said, turning around.
There were no tears in her eyes, only endless sadness.
When the emperor looked at her like this, he felt that his heart hurt.
How could he doubt his mother?
How could she have her own secrets?
How could she have sent an assassin to assassinate the Queen Mother?
Ning Anyuan got married, she was forced to go to the nunnery again, and her only son couldn't take Huan's knees, how did she spend all these years alone?
Did he forget it all!
He stepped forward, sat down in front of her, and held his hand: "Hong'er will never be again, Hong'er's heart, the mother concubine will always be Hong'er's only mother." β
Concubine Jing's fingertips trembled, and her eyes turned red.
The emperor clenched her hand guiltily: "Mother hasn't eaten yet, Hong'er will accompany you to eat." β
Concubine Jing asked firmly, "Then Your Majesty...... Are you going to stop doubting me from now on? β
"I ......," the emperor hesitated for a very short moment, "I won't. β
Concubine Jing lowered her eyes.
β¦β¦
"It turns out that Concubine Jing is hiding so deeply." On the carriage back, Gu Chengfeng couldn't help but sigh to Gu Jiao.
Gu Jiao wouldn't talk to him about this, Gu Jiao didn't talk much, it was the revolutionary friendship that Gu Chengfeng helped Gonggong Qin feed Wang Ba, and Gonggong Qin told him.
Gu Chengfeng was most surprised that Concubine Jing could even do it to the emperor, that was her adopted son, how could she be willing to feed him so many strange medicines? I'm not afraid to feed people stupidly.
"The most poisonous woman's heart!"
His words were originally a pun, and he wanted to take the opportunity to tease Gu Jiao.
However, Gu Jiao didn't react at all.
Gu Chengfeng only felt a punch on the cotton.
The carriage swayed along, thinking of something, Gu Chengfeng suddenly smiled: "You just changed the black medicine and white medicine, right?" Then will it backfire if she drugs the emperor next time? β
The moon is dark and the wind is high, and the nunnery is secluded, only the small kitchen makes a burst of stir-frying sound.
The Emperor went to another meditation room to wait.
Concubine Jing pushed open the door of her meditation room and walked in slowly, and then she waved her sleeves with her backhand and closed the door with internal force.
She opened the closet and took the black and white medicine out of the small box.
She uncorked the white pill bottle, poured out a dark brown pill, and wrapped it in a white handkerchief.
After doing this, she was about to leave, but she suddenly stopped.
Her gaze fell on the small box, at the place where the decree had been placed, at the two bottles, and suddenly, she put the pill back into the white bottle, and poured one out of the black bottle.
She took the pill and went to the meditation room next door.
The dishes are ready.
The emperor sat on the mat with her, and the emperor himself prepared vegetables for her.
"Your Majesty eats it yourself." She said.
"There is no majesty here, no concubine, only Hong'er and Niang." The emperor sandwiched a piece of tender bamboo shoots for Concubine Jing, "I remember that my mother likes to eat bamboo shoots, now is not the season to eat bamboo shoots, only pickled bamboo shoots, when the winter bamboo shoots come out, I will let people dig a big basket back." β
Concubine Jing said, "Where can I eat so much?" β
"Your Majesty, this is the mountain mushroom soup boiled by the mother herself!" The little nun happily brought a bowl of soup to her.
The emperor said, "Mother concubine, don't work so hard anymore. β
Concubine Jing said: "It's rare for you to come here." β
The emperor said solemnly: "I will come every day in the future, every day." β
I don't know if this sentence touched Concubine Jing's heart, her expression was finally not so cold.
She sighed, picked up the spoon, and served the emperor a bowl of mountain mushroom soup.
"Stand down, all of you." She said.
"Yes." The little nun and the palace attendants gradually withdrew.
"You step aside, too." The emperor said to Gonggong Wei.
Father-in-law Wei: "...... Be. β
There were only two people left in the sandalwood incense room.
The so-called white medicine and black medicine are not insisted on who feeds him, but only when the medicine is effective, the person he sees is himself, and he remembers himself deeply, then it is enough.
"Drink it while it's hot." She handed the soup bowl to the emperor.
The emperor tasted it and said with a smile: "Mother's cooking skills are still as good as ever." β
"If you like it."
"Your Majesty! The Queen Mother summons you to discuss! β
Outside the door, there was a sudden sound of Gonggong Wei's report.
Concubine Jing looked at him with a slight movement in her eyes, and the emperor was distressed by her reluctant eyes, and he said, "I'm having a meal, and I'll discuss it another day!" β
ββ¦β¦ Be. Father-in-law Wei had no choice but to respond.
The emperor picked up the spoon and drank the mountain mushroom soup that his mother had made for him one by one.
A bowl of mountain mushroom soup went down, and the emperor put down the bowl and held his forehead: "Mother, I am a little dizzy." β
Concubine Jing looked at him gently: "It's okay, just sleep for a while when you're dizzy, and wake up." β
The emperor lay on the table and looked at Concubine Jing dizzily, with the smile of Concubine Jing in front of him, the voice of Concubine Jing in his ears, and the breath of Concubine Jing on the tip of his nose.
All of this was deeply reflected in his mind.
He wants to remember this person, why remember that he does not know.
He just remembered it deeply.
On the carriage, Gu Jiao lazily leaned against the wall of the carriage: "I changed the black medicine and the white medicine, but I changed it back." β
Gu Chengfeng was shocked: "What did you say?" YouβYou changed back? To put it this way...... What's in the white bottle is still white medicine, and what's in the black bottle is still black medicine? β
Gu Jiao nodded: "That's right." β
Gu Chengfeng was stunned: "Why did you do this?" β
Gu Jiao said lightly: "Because the godfather said that in this world, there are always some people who like to be smart but are mistaken by being smart." β