Chapter 109 The old emperor was very stubborn
At this point, even he didn't think it was good to continue.
Even people who don't understand the effects of poppy fruit know that this thing is a kind of medicinal herb after all, how can someone be so bold and give so many of the same medicinal herbs to the same person without permission? Even if it is sent, it should be reported to the top.
But the facts are in front of us, and no one dares to refute anything.
Imperial Physician Shen just estimated truthfully: "Judging from Your Majesty's symptoms, this amount should be correct." ”
"Hu, nonsense, ......"
The old emperor got up from the bed weakly, showing a sign of returning to the light, and was so frightened that Xiang Yeqi hid directly behind Bo Zhaoxu to secretly observe what it was.
"I've only drunk a few bowls of medicinal soup, how can I use a hundred poppy fruits? Xiang Yeqi, I ask you, what is the basis for you to slander my rumored concubine? ”
The old emperor lost his temper for no reason, and he was about to smash the things next to him casually, but before he could get within three steps of Xiang Yeqi's body, he was easily stopped by Bo Zhaoxu, and warned the emperor regardless of the tearing face: "Father is cautious." It is precisely because of the evidence in her hand that she dares to tell the truth. ”
"On the basis? What basis can she have, but she is relying on death without proof and talking nonsense......"
In just a few words, the old emperor tore his throat before shouting.
Xiang Yeqi sighed alone, not that he was often speculated about by others, but that there were not many people like the old emperor who tirelessly stretched his face to his hand to beat himself.
"My father has always said that there is no evidence, so please ask my father to personally send someone to search the palace of the concubine to see what can be found."
At that time, she and Bo Zhaoxu kept an eye together, if the evidence that Concubine Rue could deal with in the future was taken out of the palace, there would be no way to prove that these things were searched from Concubine Ruan's palace, as long as she knew that the thing was there.
If you want to convince the old emperor, you should guide him to personally search for the things in the palace of the concubine.
The old emperor snorted with disdain, and ordered the trusted guards to go to the palace of the concubine to investigate thoroughly.
After a slightly heavy half an hour, the guard brought a plate and presented a pile of small fruits, which at first glance looked like a hundred or so fruits.
"How? The poppy fruit that Concubine Rue went to the hospital to ask for, but most of them were never used, and now this is the evidence. I should investigate this case thoroughly, and as for you, ......"
"Why don't you see what this is?"
After reminding Yeqi, Imperial Physician Shen, who was indifferent to these clues, stepped forward and picked up a small fruit, frowned, and said, "This is a grass fruit used as a recipe for vegetables, not a poppy." ”
"So what?"
The old emperor couldn't turn around for a while, and even felt that he had found evidence to defend the rumored concubine, and said sharply: "Doesn't this show even more that my rumored concubine is innocent, what kind of poppy is secretly hidden, this is clearly a grass fruit!" How can it be harmful to others? ”
"I'm afraid that my father didn't forget the entry recorded in the Tai Hospital, and the rumor concubine asked for one hundred and seventy-four poppy fruits, and the evidence is conclusive."
"So what?"
"If my father calls the person in charge of the imperial dining room again, I'm afraid he can still ask how many grass fruits the concubine begged for, since the grass and fruits are all here, where did the poppy fruits that the concubine took from the hospital go?" Xiang Yeqi smiled confidently, "In other words, the grass fruits that Concubine Yu used to cook for you are all here, so what is the grass fruit you eat?" ”
The emperor was speechless, and he could see clear loopholes in the rebuttal words that he had repeatedly considered in his heart, and he suddenly felt offended by Xiang Yeqi, but he was also in a loss......
"Now that the rumor concubine is gone, what to say, it's just that there is no proof of death, and there is no proof of death......"
If Xiang Yeqi's words were not too credible, the old emperor might not have such a big reaction, but Xiang Yeqi's words were reasonable, leaving no room for him to choose to escape, and the old emperor once again chose to smash things to vent his dissatisfaction and collapse in his heart, like the collapse of faith in his heart.
"Your Majesty doesn't look at what you look like now!"
The queen mother snorted coldly with extreme dissatisfaction, flicked her sleeves and let the crowded maids in front of the couch retreat, and stood alone in front of the old emperor, as if she had come to Xingshi to ask for guilt.
It was all expected by Xiang Yeqi to make such a big move, but even the Queen Mother was recruited, which means that the harem is out of control at this time.
No matter how haggard the spirit was at this time, the old emperor still reluctantly cheered himself up and upheld his respect for the queen mother: "Queen Mother." ”
In order to come out to meet the queen mother, the old emperor walked down from the bed half-covered by the curtain, and saw the old emperor's face at this time.
The old emperor's face was only a little pale and haggard earlier, except for the cheekbones with a slight black shadow, but now the whole person's complexion is gray and defeated, and the bruised eye circles seem to have smeared some eyeshadow that is not suitable for him, not to mention a pale face that can be summed up......
When the Queen Mother heard this, she turned around, just in time to meet the dead gray face of the old emperor, and when she staggered back two steps, she almost didn't realize that the person in front of her was her son.
She slowly stretched out her hand, touched the old emperor's cold cheeks, and was shocked: "Evil, what a crime!" knew that this woman was a scourge, and the mourning family should have expelled her from the palace in the first place! You see, what this looks like now...... Fortunately, this woman is dead, otherwise I don't know how much trouble she would have caused! ”
Xiang Yeqi inadvertently found that the old emperor's eyes were red from the words of the Queen Mother, and there was endless hatred for the Queen Mother in his eyes.
"The queen mother is really pedantic! Parochial! ”
The old emperor brushed away the hand that the Queen Mother caressed on his face, and sneered in a strange tone: "Now that there is no proof of death, you can do whatever you want to slander my rumors......
Xiang Yeqi only felt that the old emperor was hurt by the poppy fruit, and he couldn't notice the kindness and gentleness of the queen mother, which was all used to cover up his unsightly means.
If this mother and son turn against each other, the one who will suffer at that time will be the old emperor.
The Queen Mother didn't react much to the emperor's disobedience to herself, and even retreated a few steps away by herself, pretending to be indifferent: "It's Concubine Xun again, it's Concubine Lu again, it's all this look, the one who didn't succeed in poisoning at the beginning, this one hurt you!" I knew that today, it would be better to leave her a cheap life at the beginning! ”
After inquiring about the life experience of the "rumor concubine" earlier, Xiang Yeqi accidentally heard a rumor about the visit.
Roughly the old emperor is so fond of this concubine, but it is because the concubine is very much like the emperor's old love before he ascended the throne, a maid named Xiao Xun.
This little Xun was an ordinary maid who served the Queen Mother closely, and before the emperor ascended the throne, he was personally taken care of by the Queen Mother. Xiao Xun is a servant, and it is not easy to mention what he thinks in his heart, but the old emperor was already the prince at that time, and he wanted to make the childhood sweetheart who grew up with him the princess.
Listening to it is just a momentary happy thing for him, but it angered the queen mother and the first emperor, although Xiao Xun can also be regarded as a slave who keeps his duty, but for those of them who pay great attention to etiquette and etiquette, Xiao Xun must not be the crown princess in this family, otherwise this identity will be the queen, and they are afraid that the ancestors and ancestors will be angry......
However, the old emperor has always been a stubborn son, insisting on giving Xiao Xun a home, and the queen mother and the first emperor are very precious to this eldest son, so they have to take a step back with the old emperor and set up Xiao Xun as a side concubine.
If this is the end of the matter, there will not be much to do.
However, this little Kaoru is not an extremely peaceful character, at that time she became the concubine of the old emperor, and the whole person began to become arrogant and domineering, and in the first year, she killed more than a dozen former sisters, and the reason was just to wash an ordinary dress, or she thought she wanted to climb the holy bed.
The old emperor only turned a blind eye at the beginning, and when others mentioned it, he also used some vague statements to confuse these things.
So the old emperor now chooses to pretend to be stupid about the rumored concubine, Xiang Yeqi doesn't feel strange at all, but feels excusable, he has never changed.
If the queen mother died early, and did not find the current queen as a wife for the old emperor, I am afraid that the old emperor will really help Xiao Xun and let her be the first maidservant queen recorded in the history of China.
However, the queen mother saw that the old emperor overly protected Xiao Xun, so she pointed out that the current queen was the wife of the old emperor, which completely annoyed Xiao Xun, regardless of the queen's wedding night at that time, insisted on poisoning the wedding wine, but unfortunately this matter did not work out, or was saved by the old emperor.
But she has a "criminal record", and the old emperor is no longer good at protecting her blatantly, and then the first emperor died, and the queen mother took it upon herself to enrich the harem for the old emperor, and ordered him to spread the branches, and completely snubbed Xiao Xun.
Xiao Xun thought that he had completely lost his backer, so he fornicated with Prince Jing, who was eyeing the throne at that time, with the intention of poisoning and murdering the old emperor.
But this matter was lost in the end, and the Queen Mother saw that the former little maid was so restless, so she simply gave someone death.
The old emperor made trouble for several years, but in the end he settled down because he was afraid of the queen mother, and he didn't say anything.
In order to cheer up the old emperor, the queen arranged a maid who looked like the concubine Xun all the year round, but the old emperor always favored him for a short period of time, so he decisively abandoned it.
This is why the queen was able to find a girl similar to the rumor concubine immediately that day.
It's not that the girl is like a concubine, but they are all similar to a person in the old emperor's heart.
The reason why Shangguan Rao was able to bewitch the old emperor as a rumor concubine was because although those maids resembled Concubine Xun, their temperament was still not similar enough, and they were afraid of everything, only her Shangguan Rao's temperament was like Concubine Xun to the extreme, which made the old emperor feel that he had regained his love.
At the beginning, the old emperor was not firm enough, so after Concubine Xun died, the corpse was exposed in the wilderness, and the old emperor was resolute at this time, for fear that it would be undignified to let Shangguan Rao go again.
The old emperor held his aching forehead, but still insisted on his thoughts: "The previous cases have been withdrawn, I have made up my mind, and I will posthumously crown her as the queen......
But at this moment, Gu Yanchao was led in by the eunuch: "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say." ”
It is said that this matter has nothing to do with him, and Xiang Yeqi is a little confused.
But Gu Yanchao ignored everyone and walked straight to the old emperor, and admonished the old emperor in a conclusive manner: "It is rumored that Concubine Niangniang had an affair with the Hu people and committed the crime of collaborating with the enemy and treason, it is really not a pity to die, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice." ”