Chapter 149: The Queen Mother Dies
Tonight is fifteen, on the night of the full moon Zhuge Sheng is supposed to go to the queen, Zhang Nuanyu is waiting for His Majesty to come over in the new palace early, Ah Sheng is right, life has to go on, before the prince's mother, she is still the queen of this country, although she thinks of that lovely son every day with tears, but she must also have a child to consolidate her position, the grace of her mother.
"Nuan Yu, what are you thinking?" Zhuge Sheng came to the queen, and he didn't ask anyone to spread it.
"Your Majesty, don't let anyone spread the word when you come." Zhang Nuanyu stood up to greet him.
"Shout Ah Sheng, you always forget." Zhuge Sheng quickly took two steps forward and hugged her, "I haven't come to see you in the past few days, are you better?" The imperial doctor came to ask for a pulse every day, and every day he came to me and said that the queen was too heavy. ”
"The emperor, he...."Zhang Nuanyu couldn't stand it at the mention of his deceased son.
"Shh Ah Sheng didn't tell her to continue, because he didn't want her to continue to be uncomfortable.
"We have another child." Ah Sheng hugged her and walked to the side of the bed.
"Ah Sheng, I'm ....." Zhang Nuanyu felt that he didn't have the heart to do those things at all now.
"It's okay, it's the same as before, it's going to be there after a few more attempts, and no one will hurt our children in the future." Zhuge Sheng sat with Zhang Nuanyu around the bed, in fact, he didn't think very much about it in his heart, he only had these thoughts when he was with Duoyi every day, and he really didn't want to change people, but he needed his eldest son, which was a responsibility. I'll send Duo Yi away right away, I guess it will be better after I leave, he has no interest in these three in the harem now, is it really like Zuo Xiang said that there will be a wave of drafts?
"Is Your Majesty embarrassed by the left minister in the court today?" Zhang Nuanyu doesn't like to talk about government politics, and today is the first time to mention it after marriage.
"Hmm. Even you know? Ah Sheng didn't blame her, the warm words were always towards him.
"When my father came to see me after the dispersal of the dynasty today, he mentioned it." Zhang Nuanyu's father is the right minister, and he has always stood behind Zhuge Sheng, but today's matter is about his daughter, who can not be selfish, he actually did not express his position, saying that he was avoiding suspicion.
"The right minister won't help me today, what kind of thing is this a demon girl or not, this is the queen mother and I are looking to see who is more powerful in the court and who is powerful." Ah Sheng was helpless in the court, and even the right minister didn't help him, the only one who helped him speak was Zhuge Ke, you said it was funny or not.
"Warm words also say the same about Daddy, Warm Words said that Your Majesty is still the same as before, Daddy wants to help you. The queen mother has too much power in her hands, and it is not right for Zuo Xiang to always help her like that. Zhang Nuanyu talked to Ah Sheng about the government for the first time.
"I never knew why the queen mother had the support of the left minister, you know, did I hear anything that day?" Zhuge Sheng smiled bitterly, "It turns out that the wife of the left minister is the queen mother, and the two have been married since childhood, and later my grandfather actually retired for power, and the queen mother married her father directly." The left side of the queen mother never forgot, with the help of the queen mother's pillow wind to the position of the left minister, consolidated my position as the crown prince at that time, there was no edict when he ascended the throne, and it was also the left minister who supported me to ascend the throne, and the right minister has always been to avoid suspicion, just like not your biological father! "Zhuge Sheng has a lot of opinions about his father-in-law.
"As long as the result is the same, your father doesn't need to go out to get your majesty's wish, and no one will say in the future that you relied on your father-in-law to ascend the throne." Zhang Nuanyu comforted softly.
"That's why I'm just telling you this, Nuanyu, you are really my Bai Yueguang, and I will protect you and your children in the future." Ah Sheng hugged Zhang Nuanyu and chatted, and he was sleepy after a while, so many days, only she slept with peace of mind.
At night, Zhuge Sheng finally went to the queen, Duo Yi changed into the maid's clothes with confidence, and while everyone was asleep, he drove the maid who was keeping vigil at the door back to sleep, showing that he was both kind and benevolent, but it was just convenient for him to act. Walking on the path of the palace against the wall, listening to the uniform footsteps of the guards, Duo Yi walked in the direction of the Queen Mother's palace. I don't know how to act when I go to the palace, but I have to go to investigate it before I have a chance to start, if I don't even go, how can I get rid of the queen mother.
The queen mother is on the periphery of the inner palace, walking from the place where Duo Yi lives to go around most of the palace, Duo Yi relies on the three-legged cat kung fu learned in the valley, and really escaped the inspection of two waves of guards, the main gate of the queen mother's palace has long been closed, near the side wall where you can see the big tree, Duo Yi stretched out a cat's claw hook to hook the side of the high wall, walked up lightly, and saw that there was no one walking around, the queen mother slept early, should have rested, fortunately it was fifteen, otherwise you can't see anything, the cloth sewn on the soles of Duoyi's feet, I couldn't hear the sound when I walked, Duo Yi saw that the inner hall of the Queen Mother was still lit up, and she could still hear the sound of talking inside, she didn't come to her inner hall this time, she was looking for a small kitchen, at this time there should be no one in the kitchen, find a few things that might be eaten tomorrow morning and poison them, and then poison them in the water, I am afraid that the poison in the water is too little and the toxicity is not enough, so I have to see what food there is.
Easily found the small kitchen, it was pitch black and there was really no one, Duo Yi smeared it and saw the water tank, sprinkled a bag of poison on it, and saw some rice boiling in the pot with only sparks, it should be the rice porridge that the Queen Mother wants to eat tomorrow morning, this is good, great, Duo Yi happily sprinkled two packets into it. That's it, leave the last pack, if there is no movement on the Queen Mother's side tomorrow, she will come again, she has to leave a packet, she has no ability to get poison in the palace.
After the poison Duoyi returned the same way, this poison Gao Ming died the next day, after the death of the drug or anything can not be found, when the eunuch came to test it can not be found, the silver needle can not be detected, this poison is only in Beimeng, and after the person died, he did not know that she was poisoned and died, and the mother gave herself four packs, which was also all her savings.
Before he could reach his palace, he heard the guards shouting in the direction of the Queen Mother's palace: "Assassins, there are assassins, catch assassins!" When Duo Yi heard it, it was broken, it must be Shi Mi who came, so she had to hurry back to the palace to avoid suspicion, and ran back to her dormitory, but fortunately no one came, so she quickly took off her clothes and lay down, and just after lying down, the little palace maid Ruixin ran in in a panic: "Your lord, there are assassins in the palace, are you okay?!" ”
"What, there's an assassin, where?" Duo Yi pretended to have just woken up.
"I saw the assassin on the Queen Mother's side, and I don't know where to hide." Rui Xin was also afraid, and continued: "Let's let the slave keep vigil, the slave and the maid are afraid to sleep in their own room." ”
"I can't sleep when I'm scared by you, Your Majesty, are you back?" Doyi sat up and got dressed to go out.
"Your lord is still lying down, Your Majesty must have gotten the news to go to the Queen Mother, I don't know what the situation is, it's safer to stay here." Ruixin was keeping vigil in the room at the door, and it was difficult for Duoyi to get out now, lying on the bed, not knowing how Shi Mi was, whether he had succeeded, and whether he had been caught.
Duo Yi is the kind of woman with a big heart, as long as she is safe, she can fall asleep, Rui Xin is guarding outside, she lies down and thinks about things for a while and really falls asleep, the kind that has no dreams all night. On the morning of the second day, Zhuge Sheng dragged his tired body back, sat in the imperial study in a daze, and was woken up in the first half of the night when the queen just fell asleep, not to say that there was an assassin, and the assassin who had been looking for a night was not found, and the queen mother did not let herself go, on the grounds that her son wanted to protect her mother, she kept watch for the queen mother all night, and in the morning she did not let herself come back in the morning.
"Your Majesty, are you back, have you had breakfast?" Duo Yi heard that His Majesty stayed at the Queen Mother all night, and he was afraid that he would eat and drink that thing, and if Zhuge Sheng died, what chance would he have to take revenge.
"I don't have an appetite, bring me some water, and I didn't eat or drink all night outside the Queen Mother." Zhuge Sheng was really sleepy and had a headache in the Queen Mother, he had no appetite, and when he came back, he was going to drink some water and go to the morning court, and come back to make up for sleep.
Duo Yi was relieved when she heard that she didn't eat or drink, and she didn't ask much about the situation last night, so she brought water to Zhuge Sheng.
"Your Majesty, drink tea." Duo Yi tasted it in front of Zhuge Sheng, and then handed it to Zhuge Sheng.
"The Queen Mother is really going to make trouble now, not to mention seeing any assassins, the guards searched for a night and found nothing, and the fifth uncle and the master also didn't sleep all night, you said, with their skills and abilities, where can an assassin in the queen mother's mouth run to find it all night and can't find it, it's really a sin. I felt that she didn't want me to feel good, so I deliberately found fault. Zhuge Sheng is now more and more dissatisfied with his mother, and he is complaining.
"Maybe there really is an assassin, or there is a figure, the Queen Mother is just wrong." Duo Yi is still helping the Queen Mother speak, in Zhuge Sheng's opinion, Duo Yi is more sensible than the Queen Mother, and I don't know if she has no enemies when she is the Queen Mother, so she is up with her.
"Don't say it, I'll come back to see you, now go and see the queen, she was also scared last night, after seeing the queen, it's going to be early, let's change clothes first." Zhuge Sheng ordered his subordinates to change their clothes, patted Duoyi's hand, and asked her to go down to rest.
In fact, last night the person was not Shi Mi, it was Wei Yan, he came to explore the truth, who knew that he had just entered the palace of the Queen Mother and met a cat, the cat was frightened and ran into the front of the Queen Mother's door, and ran away, the Queen Mother thought it was an assassin, Wei Yan saw that the situation was not good, and he returned to his camp early, no one knew at all, and no one found out, the whole process was a cat, the fifth master and the sixth master saw the footprints at the root of the wall and did not make a sound, and continued to look for footprints in the direction of the guard camp, not in other directions, and the footprints did not enter the outer palace wall of the Queen Mother, This assassin is interesting, how did the Queen Mother know? Therefore, when the fifth master and the sixth master reported to His Majesty, they added the meaning of the Queen Mother's own self-directed and self-acting intentions, and His Majesty himself was angry all night, and he felt that this was the case.
Wei Yan went to Shi Mi after dark, and told him about the situation last night, it is estimated that it will be more difficult to enter the Queen Mother's inner palace tonight, and the incident of last night made the Queen Mother feel tight, so he persuaded Shi Mi to think of other ways.
"Time waits for no one." Shi Mi still thinks he wants to try it again.
"It's all my fault, what cat I met last night, I scared the snake, but what should I do?!" Wei Yan was annoyed.
"It's okay, there are still two days to go, don't go tonight, and go again tomorrow night." Shi Mi felt that the Queen Mother would definitely have to find someone to accompany her tonight, let her make trouble for two days for the time being, there were still three nights left before the fifth day, and she would definitely go on the last night, there was no way out, and she would see if Duo Yi had any movement in the past two days, and she would stay at the end.
Zhuge Sheng still wants to go to the queen at night, sleep there with peace of mind, Zhang Nuanyu's warmth made Zhuge Sheng sleep very comfortably last night, if he hadn't been woken up in the middle of the night, he hadn't slept so comfortably for a long time.
"Ah Sheng, I didn't sleep well last night, let's rest early today." Zhang Nuanyu wiped Ah Sheng's face on the side.
"It's still comfortable to sleep with you, I'll come here these days, and I won't dislike the warm words." Zhuge Sheng looked at the gentle warm words and joked.
"What do you say, even if you come to the concubine every day, you won't bother Your Majesty, it's just that Your Majesty has been guarding that noble person recently, and Concubine Hui has been complaining about the concubines these days, since Your Majesty ascended the throne, I have never seen Your Majesty." Zhang Nuanyu is not jealous, it does not mean that other palace concubines are not jealous, Zhuge Sheng patted Nuanyu's hand.
"I know, I'll go see them in a few days, I just want to be here with you." Zhuge Sheng didn't do anything to give birth to a prince here yesterday, this kind of thing can't be delayed, he and Nuan Yu are in urgent need of a son-in-law. The two of them performed Zhou Gong's salute on the bed, Zhuge Sheng was always a little distracted, always thinking about what would happen to her if Duo Yi was under him, warm words are a woman with rules, and she categorically couldn't use Duo Yi's various means, Zhuge Sheng was a little tired, the more this happened, the slower, and it dragged on for a long time and finally finished. The two were lying on the bed and talking.
"The Queen Mother also came to see her sons in the morning and rewarded her with a bowl of porridge." Nuan Yu lay in Zhuge Sheng's arms and said trivial things.
"Well, leave me to eat porridge in the morning, I really don't have an appetite." Zhuge Sheng was a little sleepy, and hugged her and said.
"The concubine didn't have an appetite for food, so she rewarded Jinyun." Nuan Yu doesn't like to eat white porridge either, I don't know how the Queen Mother likes to eat these.
"Tell the people below what you want to eat recently, give yourself a stronger body, and it is easy to sit on the fetus." Zhuge Sheng let go of the warm words, and wanted to turn his face to sleep inside.
"The concubine wants to eat sweets in the morning, and she doesn't like to eat tasteless white porridge." Nuan Yu also found a comfortable position and fell asleep.
The next morning, before Nuan Yu and Zhuge Sheng woke up, they heard a commotion outside, and a maid hurriedly ran in and knelt down and said, "Niangniang, Aunt Jinyun is gone......
"What do you mean that Jinyun is gone? Where did it go? Zhang Nuanyu hasn't woken up yet.
"A minion is dead and comes to bother the queen?!" Zhuge Sheng was angry when he heard it, what a big deal.
The little palace maid was scared, and the queen's most intimate palace maid went, and she couldn't sleep, so she quickly got up to see. Before he reached the door of the room, he heard someone shouting, "Your Majesty! Empress! Oh no, the Queen Mother died! The people in the Queen Mother's palace are all gone! ”
Zhuge Sheng ran out of bed in fright: "What do you say, say it again!" ”
"The Queen Mother is dead!" The little eunuch didn't care about life and death, he said it again, Zhuge Sheng sat on the ground in fright, stupid there, how could it be, how could the queen mother who tossed himself all night yesterday die, he was still having an awkward relationship with the queen mother recently, Zhuge Sheng stood up and ran and finally rushed to the queen mother's palace, there were no living people in this palace, no symptoms could be found, all of them died for no reason, the fifth uncle and the master had rushed over and sealed the queen mother's palace, outsiders could not come in, after the emperor came, he ran to his mother's bedroom, The queen mother slept there without the slightest reaction, but she really didn't breathe.
"What's going on?" Zhuge Sheng turned his face and asked the master.
"Nowhere has it been found to be poisonous, and the person who poisoned it is really powerful, and God doesn't know it." The master stood in Zhuge Sheng's ear and replied.
"What do you say?" Zhuge Sheng asked expressionlessly, standing in front of the Queen Mother's bed.
"All the Empress Dowager's palace is dead, I heard that there is also a case in the Empress Palace? Then there is only one possibility, poisoning. The master asserted.
"The queen said yesterday that the queen mother rewarded her with a bowl of porridge, she didn't like the taste, so she gave it to that minion." Zhuge Sheng replied.
"That makes sense." The master looked at Zhuge Sheng's decadent appearance and said: "There must be something wrong with the small kitchen in the Queen Mother's palace, so the minister will go and investigate." ”
"So, the assassin who came to the mother's harem the day before yesterday came to poison him?" Zhuge Sheng recalled.
"It's very likely that this minister will continue to investigate." The master saluted Zhuge Sheng and turned around and went out.
Although the mother and son are not in harmony, but the queen mother and the father are his closest relatives in this world, and now they are gone, a few days ago, the father and the emperor left, and then the only son left, and now it is the turn of the queen mother, Zhuge Sheng was hit one after another, the death of the queen mother was the last straw, he felt that he was going crazy, the queen mother calculated for a lifetime, and in the end was calculated by others, who was it, how did he do it.
Zhuge Sheng stood there stupidly, not knowing what to do, the queen rushed over after getting dressed in the palace, put on Zhuge Sheng's coat and shoes, and kept looking at Zhuge Sheng and didn't dare to speak, and finally couldn't hold back: "Your Majesty, let people dress the queen mother." ”
"Hmm." Zhuge Sheng hummed and even agreed, hugged Zhang Nuanyu and cried loudly, Zhang Nuanyu was infected by Zhuge Sheng's crying, and also cried together, she couldn't stand this pain when she lost her son, she could understand the pain of Zhuge Sheng's loss of relatives. Zhuge Sheng couldn't understand the pain of losing her son, it was still different for men and women to love their children, women wanted to conceive in October, but men didn't have such an experience, and Zhuge Sheng was not at home when she gave birth to her son, so she couldn't feel her pain.
Duo Yi heard in the palace that the Queen Mother had died, the whole person exhaled, he could finally live, he knew that it would be so easy and didn't go to Shi Mi, now only he knows that he killed the Queen Mother, was he the one who assassinated the Queen Mother that day, will he be caught and expose himself again, and now Duo Yi regrets it. However, she also hurriedly changed her clothes under the urging of Ruixin, and was about to start the mourning period, you must know that the mourning period of the first emperor has not passed, and now the mourning period of the queen mother will start again, and there is also the mourning period of the prince in the middle, Zhuge Sheng is like a vegetative person, he will do whatever people tell him to do, there is no god in his eyes, and he kneels in front of the coffin of the Empress Dowager Daxing with an expressionless face.
The master is now strengthening the security of the palace, and the fifth master is also leading people to check the affairs of the assassin that day, as well as where the poison in the small kitchen is, and what kind of poison is this.