When everyone retreated to the back, Xuanji bowed to me slightly, looked at me with a hook of eyes, and said with a smile: "Precious people don't have to hide, although the slave is older, her eyes can still see clearly." ”

I glanced at Princess Rongshou.

Princess Rongshou smiled, "Mama just found out." ”

I knew that I couldn't hide, so I raised my head, looked at Xuanji and said, "It's really urgent, and I ask Mama not to publicize the matter." ”

Xuanji said with a smile: "It turns out that the slave maid is such a talkative person in the mother's heart? ”

I hurriedly said: "It's definitely not like this, I've always respected my grandmother in my heart, but this matter is very important, I have to remind me, I'm not worried about myself, I'm worried about the safety of the emperor and the eldest princess." ”

Xuanji's voice suddenly sank, and she instructed: "The most worrying thing about the partial mother is her own safety. ”

I don't really understand Xuanji's words, speaking of which, I should have been thrown into the well in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, and besides, if Cixi had murderous intentions against me, how could she keep me until now.

I said, "Please also make it clear." ”

Xuanji sighed and said, "This Heart Cultivation Palace Niangniang can't go!" ”

I frowned and asked, "Why?" ”

Xuanji stared at me and said: "This whole thing is that Lafayette has a trick, otherwise why is the emperor not sick at this time, why is the emperor sick, this is a good time for the queen to live in the same room with the emperor, but Lafayette does not let the sick, and why Lafayette will respond to the request of the eldest princess to visit Jingren Palace today, these things really have to make people think more." ”

I asked, "But why did Lafayette set me up?" I've been demoted to a nobleman, I've been grounded! ”

Xuanji smiled and said, "Do you think that Lafayette is satisfied with just such a punishment," I trembled my eyebrows, looked at Xuanji, and she said, "What Lafayette wants is actually Niangniang's life!" ”

Although I was shocked, I also calmly analyzed: "If Lafayette has murderous intentions against me, then he can beat me to death in Ningshou Palace that day, even if the emperor saves me, Lafayette can convict me later, anyway, if Lafayette wants to kill me, it will never be possible to keep me to this day!" ”

Princess Rongshou stood on the side, and finally opened her mouth when she heard this, her voice was light, "Do you want to know why Lafayette will let you go?" ”

I turned my head and asked, "Why?" ”

Princess Rongshou said: "Because of the emperor." ”

I raised my eyebrows, "Your Majesty?" ”

Princess Rongshou continued: "When you were still in a coma, Lafayette summoned all the ministers of military aircraft, and first reprimanded Li Zhongtang for delaying the First Sino-Japanese warplane, which meant to exonerate himself for embezzling Beiyang military funds. Then, when it comes to your betrayal, the emperor probably heard that Lafayette's tone seemed to have a severe punishment, and saw that Lord Weng Tongsu did not help, so the emperor could only use the strategy of throwing away the pawn to protect the handsome, and said that Gao Wanzhi was guilty in front of Lafayette, so it was better to hand over Gao Wanzhi to the Internal Affairs Office to kill, Lafayette had nothing to say, and later the emperor told Gao Wanzhi about it, and Gao Wanzhi was willing to die tragically under the rod. ”

I'm speechless.

Unexpectedly, Cixi would actually kill me at that time.

Fortunately, Zai Yan managed to save me, otherwise history would not have changed, and I realized that it was not that I couldn't die, but that I couldn't die.

It turned out that Zai Yan lied to me before, and he was all acting.

Princess Rongshou then said: "When you were about to be killed in Ningshou Palace, we knelt on the ground, no matter how useless you begged, everyone could see that Lafayette just wanted your life, fortunately, the emperor rushed back from the Taimiao Temple in time and took you away directly from Ningshou Palace, and immediately choked with Lafayette, and then I heard that the emperor did not go to the Taimiao at all, the emperor turned back directly from the halfway, and the emperor has been by your side for two days when you were unconscious. I'm afraid that Lafayette will attack you again, the reason why the emperor has demoted your position and banned your feet, I am afraid that it is also to protect you and have to do it, you have become the target of the public, only in this way is the safest, although you can't get out, but others can't get in either. ”

Yes, Imperial Physician Zhao also said so before.

I want to protect him.

He wanted to protect me.

After hearing this, Xuanji sighed softly, "The emperor has a heart." ”

I immediately asked Xuanji: "But Mama, you said that this is Lafayette's set, but whether the emperor is sick or not, how can Lafayette control it?" ”

Princess Rongshou was puzzled: "Could it be that the emperor is not sick at all?" He frowned and shook his head, "But it's impossible!" The emperor's illness for the past two days is something that many people know! And the emperor has no reason to accompany Lafayette to pretend to be sick and act, just to take Zhen'er's life?! ”

Xuanji let out a deep sigh, "You guys are too underestimating Lafayette, the emperor is really sick, and this set is indeed under Lafayette, as long as the noble lady appears in the Heart Cultivation Palace, she will be arrested immediately, and at that time, Lafayette wants to dispose of Niangniang again, but it is justified!" ”

Princess Rongshou and I looked at each other, neither of us quite understanding the meaning of Xuanji's words.

Xuanji looked at us with a smile on his face, "You will never know how ruthless Lafayette's heart is," after a pause, he continued, "I'm afraid you won't know how the First Emperor Muzong went." When she said this, Xuanji deliberately added the word "exactly".

Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel a chill, it was clearly the weather in June, but I felt like I was in the wax moon, and my hands and feet were gradually cold.

Princess Rongshou's body was even more shocked when she heard this, she took a step forward and looked at Xuanji, and said in a low voice: "Is it related to Lafayette?" ”

Xuanji looked back at her and said, "Naturally." ”

Princess Rongshou's face suddenly became more nervous, "What the hell is going on?" ”

I'm also curious and want to hear the reason.

Xuanji snorted lightly and said: "The people of the time only knew that the first emperor was suffering from smallpox, but they didn't know that the smallpox was deliberately done by someone, mixing the tea cup used by the smallpox people in the utensils of the first emperor, and no one would care about the death of one or two eunuchs and palace maids in the Forbidden City." ”

Princess Rongshou pondered for a moment, squinted her eyes and asked Xuanji: "You mean Lafayette?" ”

Xuanji shook her head and said with a cold smile: "This is not what the slave and maid meant, Lu Fan must leave traces when he walks by, there was a eunuch in the Heart Cultivation Hall who happened to be familiar with the slave and maid, and he told the slave and maid before he died." When a man is about to die, his words are good. The Forbidden City is full of hidden arrows, and the slaves and maids would rather believe it than miss it,"

After a while, she said helplessly, "Rao is like this, Lafayette still refuses to let go, the slave maid remembers very clearly on the fourth day of the first month of December, Empress Xiao Zheyi came to Dongnuan Pavilion to serve the sick, when the first emperor was conscious, as if there was a sign of improvement, seeing Empress Xiao Zheyi frowning, tear-stained, is to ask the reason, in fact, when Xiao Zheyi just entered the heart palace, there were already eunuchs who went to Ningshou Palace to report to Lafayette, Lafayette immediately went to Qianqing Palace and heard all the conversations between Empress Xiao Zheyi and the first emperor, Empress Xiao Zheyi and the first emperor did not notice that Lafayette was outside the door, and cried. The first emperor comforted Empress Xiao Zheyi, saying that when she got well, she would always come out.

Unexpectedly, Lafayette heard this and was jealous, and immediately broke into the warm pavilion and grabbed the hair of Empress Xiao Zheyi and dragged it hard, splitting the face is a palm slam, Empress Xiao Zheyi immediately bled all over her face, a large handful of hair and scalp were dragged down, the scene was out of control for a while, miserable, Lafayette still did not feel relieved, but also passed the cane to beat the Empress Xiao Zheyi, you know, at that time the Empress Xiao Zheyi was already two months pregnant, the first emperor was shocked, fainted in an instant, and wanted to stop, fell from the bed to the ground, resulting in the aggravation of the diseaseSince then, he has been unconscious, and when the imperial doctor went to Dongnuan Pavilion, the first emperor had already closed his teeth and did not take any medicine, and finally died on the evening of the fifth day of the first month. ”

After listening to this call, Princess Rongshou clenched her fists with both hands, her eyes were already full of staggered bloodshot due to anger, she tried her best to suppress the anger in her chest, and her voice was already trembling slightly, "How can Lafayette be so cruel, Mu Zong is her biological son!" ”

"Biological son?"

Xuanji let out a disdainful sneer.

I remember that Princess Rongshou once said that she and Emperor Tongzhi actually grew up together, and naturally the relationship between the two is deeper than that of others.

Princess Rongshou was so angry that she trembled, and she couldn't have an attack immediately, but she just endured it, her eyes were already full of tears, and she wanted to cry but couldn't cry freely, and she was probably speechless.

So, I asked, "How does Mama know so clearly?" ”

Xuanji said slowly: "The slave maid was originally serving by Lafayette's side, and the slave maid happened to be present that day, and on that day, Lafayette transferred the slave and maid out of Ningshou Palace. ”

I nodded.

Xuanji immediately glanced at Princess Rongshou, who was indignant, "What about her own son, the eldest princess must not have heard such a sentence: 'The East Palace is superior to virtue, and the great punishment is better than the real master, and the West Palace is superior to the talent, and the pros and cons of judging the chapter and summoning the right time to consult." For Galeries Lafayette, her own son is no match for her strong political desires. ”

I also know that when Xianfeng was ten years old, Emperor Xianfeng was exhausted when the British and French troops invaded the capital, so he often dictated to Cixi to write and approve the recitals.

This can be regarded as a game for the tiger!

It is difficult to say that Cixi's current strong desire for political rights was not cultivated by Emperor Xianfeng bit by bit.

Princess Rongshou suppressed her voice and said, "Then you don't have to hurt the killer!" ”

Xuanji sighed softly, "This friction began when the first emperor elected the queen, and the first emperor finally moved closer to the Eastern Empress Dowager, and later the first emperor and the Eastern Empress Dowager killed An Dehai together, which was the last straw that broke the camel's back." ”

Princess Rongshou calmed her mind, and said with a slight sink: "I also know about An Dehai, An Dehai relied on the favor of Lafayette to do misbehaps, when An Dehai went to Jiangnan to buy dragon clothes in the eighth year of Tongzhi, he swaggered all the way through the city, and was captured by Lord Ding Baozhen in Shandong, the first emperor mentioned this matter to the Empress Dowager in Zhongcui Palace, and the Empress Dowager Dong was furious, so she ordered Ding Baozhen to 'kill him', and as a result, An Dehai was corrected on the spot, and Lafayette did not say anything at that time," and said, "Besides, An Dehai should have been killed!" ”

As soon as Princess Rongshou finished speaking, Xuanji sneered, "An Dehai is just a eunuch, many things are actually connived at by Lafayette, An Dehai is Lafayette's confidant, and he doesn't say anything, but Lafayette has always remembered this matter in his heart." ”

I knew that Cixi was ruthless, but I didn't expect her to let go of her own son.

My heart pounded, and my mind was full of loads.

After thinking about it again, since Xuanji can stop me tonight, then she must know something extra.

I couldn't wait to grab her hand and ask, "What about the emperor's illness?" Isn't the emperor very dangerous now? ”

Xuanji thought for a moment and said: "The slave maid heard that the emperor's illness this time was calculated by Lafayette, and the June season is the most susceptible to cold, so I just quietly open the window of the house at night, fever and head wind are very simple things," After a pause, she said again, "This time Lafayette did not be ruthless to the emperor, and it should be very clear who his target is!" ”

Xuanji's words were also very clear.

Then, I said lightly: "It's me." ”

Xuanji looked at me firmly and said, "Therefore, tonight, this Lady of the Heart Cultivation Palace will never be able to go!" ”

I was extremely anxious, "But the emperor is sick, and I really can't rest assured." ”

Before the words fell, Xuanji hurriedly said: "Lafayette is just right, Niangniang can't rest assured." ”

After I calmed down a little, I had to admit that Xuanji's words did make sense, so I only took a deep breath, and then took out a jade pendant from my arms and handed it to Xuanji, "I'm still bothering that Mama can take care of the emperor more." ”

Xuanji pushed my jade pendant and said with a smile: "Niangniang really doesn't have to be like this, Niangniang can rest assured, the slave will take care of the emperor for Niangniang." ”

She doesn't accept my jade pendant, where can I feel at ease, because I really don't understand why Xuanji would help me so unconditionally.

Xuanji looked at my face, probably understood my distress, and asked with a smile: "Is Niangniang wondering why the slave maid will help Niangniang?" ”

I didn't hide it, and nodded generously in acknowledgement.

Xuanji glanced at the dark blue night, sighed, and said, "The slave maid doesn't want to see any tragedy happen in the Forbidden City anymore, there are already too many unjust souls in the Forbidden City." ”