Chapter 81: The Concubine (2)
Concubine De said gently, He Xi only felt as if she had seen a faint light in the dark and endless cave, only to hear Concubine De look at He Xi, and suddenly pointed at her and said, "Tell me, what is going on?" β
This behavior was tantamount to a slap in Lan Ruo's face, and He Xi replied respectfully: "Back to the concubine, the concubine doesn't know the ins and outs of the matter, she only knows that the sin slave is in the water, and I heard that it was this sin slave who did it." β
"Heard? I heard that the mourning family also assisted the Queen Mother to assist the six palaces, and it was the first time I heard that these two words alone can cure people's sins. Concubine De's tone was light, but she gave birth to an undeniable majesty. Lan Ruo secretly scolded He Xi for being troublesome, and hurriedly said: "The concubine naturally checked, the crazy slave was at the scene on the day of the fire, and someone saw her holding the fire in her hand." β
He Xi also knew that Lan Ruo would not let Li Jingui go, did anyone see it? Just ordered a few people, and three people can become tigers, but this child ......
"Then she really deserves it, so she can deal with it as she wants." Concubine De didn't seem to like the chaos in the hall, and waved her hand impatiently.
Lan Ruo was overjoyed in her heart, and quickly hinted that the palace people would drag people down.
Li Jingui desperately grabbed the ground of the white marble, and his nails were embedded in the cracks in the ground, with great force, and the nails were cracked one by one, leaving bright red finger marks.
But she didn't feel the piercing pain, she just wanted to crawl to her child's side, the child was ignorant, and cried quietly, and the voices of mother and son were particularly abrupt in this silent room.
"Where did this kid come from? Bring it over, and look at the mourning family. Concubine De seemed to have just noticed the little figure and said softly, Aunt Ruizhi beside her hurriedly walked down, took the little child from the eunuch's hand, and led it to Concubine De.
"It's just a sin slave who fornicates with others, and this child is not tolerated by the laws of the palace, and should be executed together." Lan Ruozhi is showing a businesslike appearance.
Concubine De pulled the child, looked up and down, and said with a smile: "Ruizhi, you can help the mourning family take a look, how can I see, this child is so like the emperor?" β
A stone in He Xi's heart finally fell to the ground, no matter who invited this concubine today, what was the matter with the invitation, but fortunately, the child was saved, but Li Jingui -
Li Jingui's crying and shouting came from outside, and there was a dull sound of the board hitting her body, her heart was desolate, she thought that after the flower feast, she would be able to send them out of the palace, who expected that the world was impermanent, no, maybe from the beginning, Tuoba Yue didn't think about sending them out, after all, this child-
The little child stood on it, and he only knew that his mother had been taken away, and he did not know that this parting was the difference between heaven and man, and he did not know that he would no longer face that small box in the future. It's this huge harem and those greedy desires.
At this time, in the Heart Cultivation Palace, Tuoba Chen was staring at the account book presented by Zhang Minyuan in the morning, when he saw Fuqing's figure flashing at the door, he rubbed the corner of his forehead and said tiredly: "What happened again?" β
"Your Majesty, someone from the palace came to report just now, and Concubine De asked you to go to Weiyang Palace." Fuqing also had doubts in his words, Xu Shi didn't know what was going on in this Weiyang Palace today, and the concubine went to make trouble.
As soon as he heard that it was Concubine De, Tuoba Chen hurriedly got up from his chair and said, "Why is Concubine De alarmed?" β
While talking, while walking outside the hall, Fuqing hurriedly passed the sedan chair, trotted behind the sedan chair, and said in a loud voice: "I heard that it seems to be because of a child, and there is a palace maid named Li Jingui." β
Tuoba Chen couldn't remember who Li Jingui was, and asked suspiciously, "Who is Li Jingui?" β
He only felt that everything was in a hurry, it was really a wave of unsettled, wave after wave, when he endured his anger and arrived at Weiyang Palace, Li Jingui had been beaten and only had one breath left, and they all said that people who were dying would have the potential to return to the light.
When Li Jingui saw Tuoba Chen, her eyes were already clear, her voice had already lowered, and she muttered to call Your Majesty.
Tuoba Chen looked at the dirty Li Jingui and opened his eyes indifferently.
first bowed to the concubine de and said: "This little thing, how can it alarm the concubine, the queen is too fanfare." β
He opened his mouth to reprimand Lan Ruo, although Lan Ruo knew that this was Tuoba Chen's attempt to give face to Concubine De, but she felt that she had suffered enough grievances today, but she couldn't do it again, so she could only grit her teeth and endure it, and said in a low voice: "It's the concubine who is not doing well, and I ask Your Majesty to punish her." β
Seeing that He Xi was also under his head, Tuoba Chen's eyes softened, and he comforted the queen to get up, and then sat down, as soon as Fang sat down, Concubine De pushed the child in front of Tuoba Chen in front of him and said, "The emperor look at this child." β
Tuoba Chen didn't know why, the child in tattered clothes in front of him was standing in front of him timidly at this time, his eyes were full of fear and cringe, like a frightened little beast, looking at himself with round eyes.
He beckoned to the boy and said, "Come to me." β
But the child didn't seem to understand, and he didn't know where to put his cramped hands and feet, Tuoba Chen gave birth to a trace of pity for no reason, and called again in a low voice, still without movement.
Lan Xin sat aside and muttered, "Your Majesty, this kid is mentally incomplete, just like his mother." β
"His mother?" Tuoba Chen asked.
Lan Xin saw that Tuoba Chen was interested in her words, and hurriedly replied: "The arson Li Jingui outside is his mother, and I don't know who he gave birth to this childββ"
The tenderness on Tuobachen's face was gone, he straightened up his waist and stopped looking at the child, Aunt Ruizhi quickly pulled the child down to her side, and looked sideways at Concubine De.
Concubine De half-closed her eyes, as if she couldn't hear Lan Xin's slander of the child.
"This matter, if you think about it, should be carefully investigated, although it is just a child, it is also a life." He Xi looked at Tuoba Chen fearlessly and pleaded.
"This kid looks like he is only one or two years old, and you can find out where Li Jingui was at that time." Xu Qing'er, who hadn't spoken for a long time, suddenly spoke, not knowing if it was suitable for He Xi's words that although she was a child, she was also a life, woke her up, so she said softly.
Tuoba Chen nodded, and ordered Fuqing to go to the Internal Affairs Office to transfer the booklet, and as soon as Fuqing left on the front foot, the executioner outside came in and said, "Your Majesty, Li Jingui asks to see you." β
The queen's face changed, and she reprimanded loudly: "You dare to spread the words of a madman, is it because you have the intention to tease the palace and Your Majesty?" β
The man fell to his knees with a thud and said in a trembling voice: "The slave doesn't dare, but that Li Jingui seems to be in a clear state, seeing her anxious look, the slave didn't dare to make the decision on his own, and killed him directly, so he came to ask for instructions." β
Before the queen could continue to speak, Concubine De said, "In that case, bring it in and hear what she has to say." β
Tuoba Chen nodded and agreed: "Do as the concubine instructs." β
Lan Ruo stared at the carved wooden door, and after a long time, he saw two people walking in with Li Jingui on his back. Li Jingui was severely punished, and she didn't even have the strength to kneel down and salute, so she could only lie on the ground, she raised her face and looked at the child next to Concubine De, her eyes were full of reluctance and concern.
It was a mother's last goodbye to her flesh and blood, and she bowed her head again and kowtowed heavily to the ground. Choked up and said: "Sin slave Lin Jingui see the concubine, Your Majesty, the queen mother." β
"What the hell do you have to say?" Tuoba Chen said quietly.
When Li Jingui raised her head again, her face was already full of tears, and she almost used all her strength to squeeze out a sentence, which almost made everyone present's faces change greatly.
"Your Majesty, it's not a pity for the slave to die, but this child is yours, please take good care of him!"
This is Li Jingui's last sentence left in the world, in order to correct her child's name, and even what is the name of this child, she didn't come to say it urgently, so she lost her breath.
"What did you say?" Word by word, Tuoba Chen almost squeezed the words out of his teeth, but in response to him was a dead silence and the faint sound of breathing in the hall.
"Someone, wake her up." Immediately, a palace man broke the cold water and poured it on Li Jingui's head, but Li Jingui was still motionless.
"Your Majesty, the person is out of breath."
"This Li Jingui is really smart, a sentence before he died, he wanted to seek the status of a prince for his child, Your Majesty, the blood of the royal family should not be ignored, Your Majesty think twice." Lan Xin said delicately.
Concubine De touched the child's head, the child looked at Li Jingui at the bottom of the stairs fixedly, and whispered to his mother, but he couldn't get an answer, he still didn't know what death was, and his intuition was that his mother should be asleep.
Don't cry or make trouble, quietly wait for when your mother wakes up, and then take yourself to see the beautiful flowers and plants.
"It's about the blood of the royal family, you really should think twice, emperor, I see that what Li Jingui said may not be false, this kid I also think it is very similar to you when you were a child, and when Fuqing transfers the booklet from the Internal Affairs Office, everything will fall into place." Concubine De said slowly.
Tuoba Chen's eyes were dark, and he ordered someone to invite Lu Chuan to come, and the silence in the room returned to death, Xu Qing'er didn't expect Li Jingui to say such a thing, at this time, the only thought in her mind was to worry about the child in her belly.
If this child is really the emperor's own son, then isn't this child in his womb......