Chapter 342: The Man Behind the Scenes
It was night, Queen Yuan was bathing comfortably with mugwort leaves before going to bed, she wanted to soak herself for a while, so she didn't want to wait around, the night was quiet, and soon she had some sleepiness, she was going to close her eyes and recuperate for a while, but suddenly heard the crow's cry.
I don't know why, she suddenly remembered the appearance of Shuang'er when she committed suicide in her mind, and then she remembered that today was Shuang'er's first seven, for fear that Shuang'er would come to her, so she was so frightened that she hurriedly called Liu'er in.
"Liu'er, hurry in, the palace is going to take a bath, light all the candles in the room, it's too dark in this room."
Liu Er came in and looked at the bright-eyed dormitory with some doubts, and ordered someone to take out all the candles in the cabinet and put them on one by one.
But there is a ghost in her heart, even if it is bright around, what is the use, Queen Yuan began to have insomnia in a panic, and finally slept for a while, but she dreamed of Shuang'er coming to ask for her life, so frightened that she rushed out of the dormitory.
"Niangniang, Niangniang, what's wrong with you!"
The palace maid who kept vigil was startled, and hurriedly stopped the queen who was running away frantically, and comforted her for a long time before sending her back to bed again.
"Liu'er, it must be Shuang'er's ghost who has returned, she must now blame me for letting her bear the sin of cinnabar, even if she dies, she won't let me live in peace!"
The candles in Jingren Palace were lit overnight, because Empress Yuan was afraid, and the eunuchs even temporarily went to the Internal Affairs Office to get a large cart of candles, and lit the entire courtyard of Jingren Palace as if it were day.
But in this way, the haunting of Jingren Palace spread throughout the harem.
Everyone doesn't know what the ghost looks like, but in the eyes of the people of Jingren Palace, the most terrifying thing is Queen Yuan, who woke up in the middle of the night, she always screams without warning, and she looks particularly terrifying in the middle of the night.
Ping'er, the little palace maid of Jingren Palace, is the most timid on weekdays, because the queen's abnormality has not slept well for several days, and it is her turn to be on duty at night, and she can't help but tremble when it is just dark.
"Buddha bless, Ping'er has never done anything wrong, the Buddha must bless! The ghosts and gods are all going to find the mother, don't come to me! ”
She knew that this was really a big rebellion, but she was so frightened that she could only endure it until dawn.
The sky gradually darkened, Ping'er's fear also reached the extreme, without warning, the queen began to scream again, Ping'er instantly felt that the tight string in her brain was broken, and fell straight down on the spot.
Everyone thought that she was just scared and fainted, and she didn't think about it at all, but who would have thought that after Ping'er woke up, she went crazy and began to talk nonsense, and Liu'er could only order someone to lock her up.
But since Zhan Qing began to suspect the queen, he began to keep people paying attention to the movements of Jingren Palace, and now that the movement there is so big, he naturally knows it clearly, so that Ping'er's crazy words soon fell into his ears.
"Crazy talk, heh, sometimes what a fool says is true."
In order to prevent Ping'er from being disposed of by the queen, when the queen was unbearable and went to the temple to offer incense, Zhan Qing took the opportunity to let people go to Jingren Palace and take her away.
Whoever dares to stop the people sent by the emperor can only inform the queen as soon as possible, but the current queen is far away in the temple outside the palace, even if she rushes back as quickly as possible, the Zhan Qing who should be asked and who should not be asked has already been asked.
The queen didn't dare to rest all the way, and went straight to the imperial study to find the emperor, and she was so anxious that she almost forgot the most basic etiquette.
"Your Majesty, why did you take advantage of the concubine's absence to take away the concubine's crazy palace maid, she is crazy on weekdays, what if she hurts Your Majesty, please return her to the concubine!"
Her current attitude has long been expected by Zhan Qing, the more anxious she is, the more slow Zhan Qing is, just wanting to rush her.
"It's useless for the queen to bring people back now, do you think a crazy person can hide any secrets?"
The queen's face instantly lost blood, but she desperately held on, holding on to the last glimmer of hope.
"Your Majesty, don't tease the concubine anymore, what can she recruit, how can a madman's words be trusted?"
"What does the queen think she can recruit..."Zhan Qing took a sip of tea, deliberately sold the guanzi, paused, and continued, "I have already gone out in person, so naturally I recruited what I did, and I recruited what I knew, but I didn't expect that the queen would not avoid these palace maids in what she did on weekdays, and it also saved me a lot of effort!" ”
The queen's mind was buzzing, and she kept thinking that it was over, her legs and feet were weak, and she knelt directly on the ground, ignoring the majesty of the queen, she climbed to the emperor's feet, grabbed his trouser legs and begged for mercy.
Maybe it was so many days of torture that made the defense line in her heart become particularly fragile, and it completely collapsed at this moment, and she didn't even notice that Zhan Qing said half a sentence and half a sentence, and didn't talk about the crux of the problem at all, but said it herself in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, just forgive the concubine, the concubine is just a momentary ghost, that is the concubine loves you too much, the concubine wants to have your first child, but those cheap women are blocking the concubine, and the concubine really has no choice!"
may be too urgent, and for a while, Queen Yuan actually fainted directly at the feet of Zhan Qing.
Although the queen did not clearly say that the poison was caused by her, anyone who heard the queen's words would know what she was talking about, and the truth was inadvertently revealed.
The mastermind behind the scenes was exposed, and Zhan Qing finally returned Xu Xiangjin's innocence, but the queen was not an ordinary concubine after all, and Zhan Qing could only temporarily imprison her in Jingren Palace and wait for her to be released later.
And a few days after waiting for the day to fall, Zhan Qing and the ministers did not discuss a result, so they simply made a decision and abolished the Yuan family's rear position.
As if a major matter had finally been solved, Zhan Qing breathed a deep sigh of relief and went to Xu Xiangjin like a reward.
"I have solved the matter of cinnabar, and finally returned your innocence, and now that the queen has been deposed, no one dares to touch you."
This is indeed a big deal for Xu Xiangjin, although she said that she didn't care about it before, but it doesn't mean how comfortable she is in her heart to let the person who harmed her get away with it, she is not a good person in the first place, and now when she hears the fate of Queen Yuan, she can only gloat.
"Yes, I've been tossing for so long, I almost lost my life, and I finally dealt with this matter, who dug the pit and who buried it, hum, the person who wants to harm me hasn't been born yet, I deserve it!"
The house was warm and warm by the charcoal fire, Xu Xiangjin now felt warm in his heart, snuggled in Zhan Qing's arms, and the whole person looked a little lazy.
"Jin'er, now that I, the emperor, don't have a queen, maybe no one can lower me except you, otherwise, how about you come to be my queen!"
"What!" Xu Xiangjin was frightened, sat up suddenly, and the whole person was much more energetic, this topic came too suddenly, which made her a little difficult to digest for a while.
"This, how easy is it to be a queen, and your last queen has just been abolished, so it will take a few days, otherwise..."
"Okay, then in a few days, I'll give you a promise, and in a few days, I'll tell the world that you are my only queen in the future."
Eh, 10,000 unknown creatures ran over in Xu Xiangjin's heart, she didn't say anything just now, she obviously didn't promise anything! But looking at Zhan Qing's happy appearance, she really couldn't bear to refuse anymore, so she could only cry and laugh and bury her head in his arms.
According to Xu Xiangjin's previous experience of watching TV, every time the male protagonist promises something to the female protagonist, something will happen in the middle, no, as soon as Zhan Qing's front foot left, Liu Yichen appeared in the shadow.
Every time Xu Xiangjin almost forgot about his existence, he suddenly had a sense of existence, but considering that he was holding his antidote in his hand, Xu Xiangjin still felt that it was better for him to take the initiative to appear a few times.
"Tut-tut, this is about to be the queen, Xiangjin is probably going to be happy and can't sleep."
Xu Xiangjin sighed in her heart, with him such a time bomb, she can sleep well before she can ghost.
"The prince's courage is also getting bigger and bigger, just now the emperor is here, the prince is not afraid of being discovered, so he hides around here, I didn't expect that after so long, the evil taste of the prince's peeping has become more and more vigorous."
Every time Liu Yichen appeared, the two of them had to play Tai Chi several times, and Xu Xiangjin felt that he was really tired.
"There's no way, after all, this king still has to guard his own woman to prevent my good Xiangjin from changing his mind!"
Liu Yichen slowly approached Xu Xiangjin, seeing that things were developing in an increasingly disgusting direction, Xu Xiangjin hurriedly took a few steps back and stopped him from approaching.
"Enough, stop playing tricks, the prince came to adventure in the middle of the night, if you have any instructions, hurry up, I've not been in good health recently, and I need to rest more, after all, if my body collapses, there will be no one to help the prince do the task."
I don't know how many times he has been interrupted, Liu Yichen hooked a stool and sat down a little boringly.
"It's very simple, this king came this time to let you steal the defense map of the Forbidden City and hand it over to this king, now Fu Junmo has unconditional trust in Xiangjin, for Xiangjin, this matter is a piece of cake!"
I'll go, Xu Xiangjin almost couldn't control his expression, this thing finally couldn't hold back his shot, and now he dared to ask for a defense map and gave him that thing, wouldn't that completely expose Zhan Qing's back to him, how could she do this.
Of course, a hundred people in her heart were unwilling, but on the surface, she was still as obedient as before, but in order to be able to make Liu Yichen believe her, she deliberately frowned very embarrassed.
"How could the emperor give me such an important thing as the armament map."