Chapter 27: Suspicion (II)

After noon, Zhong Lishuo was preparing to go to the palace.

The carriage walked leisurely on the road, shaking so much that Zhong Lishuo's heart was uncomfortable. As the carriage got closer to Miyagi, Zhong Lishuo felt more and more that he began to have a strange feeling about the city he had once longed for, a feeling that contained longing, fear, fear, and excitement.

Zhong Lishuo felt that he had become a little abnormal, and he also felt very tired. He was a little out of breath when he had carried too many things from his grief, but he was so happy to see that the humiliation he had suffered for many years was about to be realized in the near future.

Desire, invisibly, pushed him to become the person he once hated so much. Zhong Lishuo suddenly felt funny, but after laughing, the sad sigh was so long and chilling. The country is good, and it is good to monopolize power, but the mental and physical torment is so real.

is always fighting, if you change to an idle lifestyle, Zhong Lishuo really doesn't know how to live like that. Even if you don't know, you will have a desire, maybe if you are really idle, you will also start to be struggling with three meals a day. There are always advantages and disadvantages to how you live. All he can do is force himself to go in the direction he wants, you know, if this thing fails, in this life, he can only be slaughtered like fish and meat, and he may become a prisoner, and he will be imprisoned for the rest of his life, and he will not be free.

Zhong Lishuo didn't want to live like that, he would feel chills even when he thought about it. So, he straightened his chest and breathed a long sigh of relief to calm himself.

"Your Highness, it's here." The groom said outside the car. Zhong Lishuo straightened his clothes and got out of the car.

In the Chaohua Palace, Concubine Jing's mother and son sat opposite each other. After Zhong Lishuo told Concubine Jing what the prince said to him in the morning, Concubine Jing had no other reaction except for an indifferent smile, which couldn't help but surprise Zhong Lishuo.

Concubine Jing looked at Zhong Lishuo's expression, she understood his thoughts, reached out and took the tea bowl in front of her, took a sip, and said:

"Shuo'er, I know what you're thinking. But what you know, others don't necessarily know. Not to mention whether this news is true or not. It is not a small crime for an official of the imperial court to instigate the killing of officials of the same dynasty behind the scenes. Don't act rashly until you have solid evidence. Zhong Lishuo nodded:

"Erchen understands. It's just one thing, and my son can't figure it out very well. Concubine Jing raised her eyes and looked at him:

"I know what you're asking, what is the relationship between Zhong Linuo and Shangguan Hong?" Zhong Lishuo listened to Concubine Jing's words and smiled:

"It's really like a mother. What the son thought in his heart, the mother concubine knew everything. The corners of Jing Guifei's mouth lifted, her eyes lowered, the index finger and thumb of one hand pinched the lid of the tea bowl, and gently played with the tea leaves floating on the tea surface:

"It's actually quite simple. Shangguan Hong was ostensibly assisting the crown prince Zhong Linuo, but secretly he just wanted to treat him as a pawn. In fact, there is a sentence Zhong Linuo is still right, if he is the prince now, he is just a puppet. It wasn't what he wanted. The crown prince is arrogant, after all, he is still a child, and if he can say this in front of you, he will make you a prince, and if others hear it, he can covet the throne. Shuo'er, think about it carefully, what is your father's most taboo hate? Concubine Jing said, raising her eyes to look at Zhong Lishuo, the smile on the corner of her mouth becoming more meaningful. Zhong Lishuo looked at his mother:

"The regime is on the sidelines." Concubine Jing nodded:

"It's nature. Your father and emperor didn't put a lot of effort into the government back then, how could he allow others to covet it. Besides, this man is still his own son. Presumably, your father was also wary of the queen and the crown prince, otherwise your father wanted to talk to you yesterday, and when he saw the queen by his side, he would not say anything. There is a reason for this. When Zhong Lishuo heard this, he suddenly realized:

"Is it the mother concubine who told her father about Shangguan Hong's poisoning?" Concubine Jing watched him make a silent motion:

"I didn't say anything, but I just mentioned the doctor. As for what the Imperial Physician said to your father, I don't know. Now we shouldn't make too much of a move, just wait and see. Zhong Lishuo listened to his mother's words and couldn't help but nodded:

"Mother mean to watch them kill each other? You must know that a large part of the prince's power is raised by Shangguan Hong, which means that the prince's weight in his henchmen is not enough than Shangguan Hong. Although the father knew that the poison was under Shangguan Hong, it was inevitable that he would not be wary of the prince and the queen, after all, the queen was Shangguan Hong's own sister. Concubine Jing looked at the tea bowl in front of her with low eyebrows, and said lightly:

"It's good to understand it yourself, you don't have to say it all. You just have to wait now, someone will wait. When they make mistakes, we have a chance to come out. Zhong Lishuo looked at his mother, a woman of only fifty, who was originally as simple as a blank piece of paper, but she didn't want to, and after decades in the palace, she had become such a deep person as the city government. In addition to admiration, it is a pity, maybe the mother who was once gentle as water will never appear again.

Zhong Lishuo was secretly distracted, and suddenly he seemed to think of something, so he asked:

"The mother concubine just said that her father knew about Shangguan Hong's poisoning." Concubine Jing raised her head and looked at him, she couldn't help but feel a little strange:

"yes, what's wrong?" Zhong Lishuo asked again:

"Father's health is better?" Concubine Jing didn't know what Zhong Lishuo was doing, so she replied to him:

"It's much better. I asked the doctor privately and used some medicine, and gradually I was able to control the toxicity, but because the poisoning lasted for too long, the inner bottom has been hollowed out, and now if I can maintain it by decoction, it is difficult to go back to the past. After listening to this, Zhong Lishuo asked again:

"Is my father's diet still the same as before?" Concubine Jing glanced at Zhong Lishuo:

"How can it still be the same as before. Now your father's diet is controlled by his personal father-in-law, and there are people who test poison, and there are cronies of the imperial doctor who take turns to watch, and it is not possible to send anything in, everything has passed the eyes of the imperial doctor, and he does not dare to come out at all. ”

"In this way, no one dares to believe my father now." Zhong Lishuo said with some sadness, Concubine Jing was extremely indifferent:

"Who's to say no, but even so, there are still so many people staring at that throne. Even if you are lonely or sad, what you have will naturally lose. I can't say half a word. Zhong Lishuo listened and nodded:

"Erchen understood. The sons retired first. After finishing speaking, she was about to leave, but Concubine Jing was stunned by him, and quickly stood up and called out to him:

"What are you going to do?" Zhong Lishuo turned his head and squeezed his eyes at Concubine Jing:

"Go and see my father, he didn't say anything yesterday, and today I want him to say it."