After dawn, the news of Concubine Xian's confession spread throughout the palace.

Concubine Ning didn't sleep for half the night because she ate a roast chicken in the middle of the night, and then finally fell asleep, and she slept soundly when she was called up by the palace maid.

"Mother, wake up, something happened!"

Concubine Ning opened her eyes with difficulty, and hiccuped with the smell of roast chicken, and a spirit came to her senses: "What's the matter?" ”

The palace maid looked happy: "Concubine Xian confessed, she was the princess she harmed-"

"Wait a minute, Concubine Xian has confessed?" Concubine Ning rubbed her temples and hurriedly asked for details.

The palace maid's eyebrows fluttered and said: "It is said that the virtuous concubine talked in her dreams in the middle of the night, and told her about harming the princess, and the palace maid on duty reported to the emperor after hearing it......"

Concubine Ning was stunned.

Confessed in your dreams? How does this sound bizarre?

Thinking about her decision to eat roast chicken last night and breaking the broken jar, Concubine Ning stroked her full stomach.

Sure enough, life is impermanent, blessings and misfortunes are unpredictable, and people have to live in the present.

"Wait for the main palace to wash." Concubine Ning only felt refreshed, and did not forget to instruct the palace maid, "Remember to tell the imperial dining room for lunch, and add a plate of roast goose to Chunhua Palace." ”

The palace maid hurriedly responded: "Yes." ”

Last night, she watched Niangniang eat roast chicken and thought that Niangniang was under too much pressure and was a little scared, now think about it, fortunately, Niangniang couldn't sleep because of eating roast chicken, otherwise if she said something inappropriate in her dreams like Concubine Xian - the consequences are unimaginable!

After Concubine Ning finished washing, she hurriedly went to Kunning Palace to ask the queen for peace (to inquire about information).

When King Qi received the news, he was stunned, and followed the inner servant into the palace in a daze.

Walking into the Palace of Nourishing Hearts, King Mu Ran of Qi greeted Emperor Jingming: "My son has seen my father's emperor——"

Tired of the house and Wu, Emperor Jingming was too lazy to look at King Qi, turned his back to him and said coldly: "Go and see the Ji family, and then leave the palace quickly, and you can't stay for a long time." ”

King Qi shuddered, bowed his head and said, "Yes." ”

King Qi followed the chamberlain to Yuquan Palace, a road that he was very familiar with, but he felt a little unfamiliar.

There are almost no human figures in the huge Yuquan Palace, only the blowing wind and the swaying flower shadows.

This palace, once full of flowers, seems to have suddenly become dead and lifeless.

King Qi opened his mouth to ask the chamberlain, but the chamberlain who led the way half-bowed his head, and he didn't mean to say much.

He had to swallow all his doubts, and finally met Concubine Xian in a relatively remote room.

This is a makeshift morgue.

Concubine Xian lay upright, described as withered, her face was pale, and she had long lost her life.

"Mother Concubine-" King Qi knelt down and reached out to hold Concubine Xian's hand.

That cold hand made King Qi really realize that the concubine who had been protecting him and loving him was really gone.

Staring at Concubine Xian's face, King Qi muttered, "Mother, what happened?" Why did you go so suddenly-"

Naturally, no one answered his words.

The chamberlain reminded on the side: "Lord Wang, you have to hurry, the Ji family will be sent out of the palace later-"

King Qi suddenly looked at the chamberlain and said angrily, "Is the Ji family you can call?" ”

The chamberlain lowered his eyes and explained: "The prince may not know that the Ji family was demoted to a common person for murdering Princess Fuqing and Princess Fourteen, and they are not allowed to be buried in the imperial mausoleum——"

These words were made clear to the king of Qi by the above.

"What?" King Qi was shocked and looked at the lifeless Concubine Xian in astonishment.

That face is still a familiar face, and it has represented love and meticulous care for him since he was a child, but at this moment, King Qi felt a little unfamiliar, and then a trace of resentment arose from the bottom of his heart.

Mother is this crazy? Why did the good end harm the thirteenth sister and the fourteenth sister?

It's just two princesses, what's the benefit of him doing them harm?

The mother concubine will only make his father even more disgusted with him, so that he will not even have a chance.

is not favored by the emperor, which is a heavy blow to the prince who is interested in competing for the position of prince and is not the prince of the prince, which is why the ministers who are close to the king of Qi have been attacked by Emperor Jingming one after another, and many courtiers who are ready to stand in line choose to wait and see.

If it were not for the prince, there would be no ministers who would argue with the emperor in order to support orthodoxy. If you don't have the emperor's heart, the courtiers will support you if they eat too much.

It is also because of this that Concubine Xian will take risks and be willing to be used by the Queen Mother, hoping to put her to death and survive. Because she knew that her son, who was rejected by the emperor, could not have another chance, unless he relied on a huge external force.

But King Qi didn't understand, and at this moment, he only had incomprehension and resentment towards Concubine Xian.

"Is there a mistake? My mother is kind-hearted, and she can't bear to step on an ant to death, how can she harm people? ”

The chamberlain laughed in his heart.

Kind-hearted? How many kind-hearted people can survive in this cannibalistic harem? It's a shame that these slaves and maids still think that Concubine Xian is a good one, but now it seems that there are no exceptions.

"Lord Wang, this is what the Ji family personally admitted."

King Qi looked at the servant with a stunned expression, and after a while, he hid his face and cried: "Mother, you are confused, it is your son's fault, if your son comes to see you more, you won't want to go wrong......"

The chamberlain waited for a while and reminded, "Lord Wang, you should go." ”

King Qi cried and kowtowed to Concubine Xian a few times, and then got up to leave.

Out of Yuquan Palace, King Qi did not go out with the inner attendant, but went to Emperor Jingming with red circles under his eyes to ask for guilt.

"Lord, you better leave the palace early, the emperor is in a bad mood at this time-"

King Qi insisted: "It is appropriate for my father to be beaten and punished, if I can make my father angry, I can do anything." ”

Today, Emperor Jingming was not in the mood to deal with complicated government affairs, so he hid in the apse of the Heart Cultivation Hall in a daze.

Jixiang seemed to sense that the owner was in a bad mood, so he hid far away and ate small dried fish.

Emperor Jingming glanced at the white cat that was getting rounder and rounder, and his mood was even worse.

This cat was raised for nothing, and he was in such a bad mood that he didn't know to come over and let him smooth his hair.

Staring at the small dried fish that Ji Xiang was holding, a thought rose in Emperor Jingming's heart: Maybe in Ji Xiang's heart, his master is not as important as the dried fish.

Pan Hai walked over: "Your Majesty, King Qi is here." ”

Emperor Jingming raised his eyes, his eyes were cold: "Didn't you want him to go back?" ”

"King Qi has seen the Ji family, and he has come to ask for sin, and he is kneeling outside at this time."

"Then let him kneel."

King Qi knelt for more than an hour.

Pan Hai came to Emperor Jingming's side again: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother, please come over." ”

Emperor Jingming bowed slightly, walked out of the palace, and saw King Qi kneeling outside at a glance.

When the scorching sun was in the sky, King Qi knelt under the sun, his face was flushed, and his thin shirt was soaked with sweat.

Emperor Jingming glanced at King Qi and walked towards Cining Palace with his feet raised.

King Qi shook his body, lowering his eyes to hide the despair and resentment towards Concubine Xian.

When Emperor Jingming rushed to Cining Palace, he saw the empress dowager's somewhat haggard face.

"Mother, you didn't sleep well last night?"

The Queen Mother smiled bitterly: "There was such a big incident yesterday, how can the mourning family sleep well." Today, I heard the queen say that it was the Ji family who killed the fourteenth ......"