Chapter 595 Hollow Hairpin Chapter 596 One step further

The Empress Dowager looked at the emperor and directly refused to use her identity as the vast majority of the numbers, without giving any explanation; But not now, because the emperor's words are justified and he is still the emperor, if she does not agree, there must be a reasonable reason. She doesn't want to let go of Hongluan even more now: because the emperor has guaranteed Hongluan.

led her into the trap step by step, it was she who promised to elevate Bing'er's position, it was she who promised to lower Hongluan's position, and then the emperor's words were so logical; How did she know that the emperor would start from such a small place? The emperor has really grown up, she never thought that the emperor would be able to confront her overnight, so she didn't even have any preparation.

She summoned the emperor and the concubines with higher positions in the palace, just to let everyone in the palace know who is the real master of the palace and who is the real ruler of the world; She believed that the emperor would bow his head because he was fledgling. But she was wrong, the fledgling emperor still did not bow his head, and it was unprecedented insistence.

Now she doesn't just want to guard against Hongluan, she doesn't just want to give a warning to the people in the palace through Hongluan: daring to disobey her will be the end; It was more important for her to let the emperor know how he should do things and how he should respect her. She drank tea in a deep voice and did not answer, the hall was quiet, and almost everyone was waiting for her answer.

The crown princess didn't expect the emperor to raise Bing'er's position so high, but the emperor said that it was because Bing'er was her person, and he still let Bing'er serve her: of course, this is great honor and decency; So she waited for a long time to see that the Empress Dowager didn't answer, so she stood up honestly and unceremoniously and saluted the emperor and said, "Concubine thank the emperor for his grace." ”

She agreed. Although she is still only a crown princess, she is the master of the middle palace above the ceremony, and no one in the palace knows this; Therefore, of course, her words were very weighty, and her promise made the Empress Dowager have to accept Bing'er in Ci'an Palace.

The crown princess did not do it to embarrass the empress dowager, she was just moved by the emperor's good treatment of her; She hadn't gotten the emperor's warm words for a long time, and of course she was a little flattered that Bing'er had made the emperor so gentle. Of course, when she saw Bing'er after she sat down, she immediately felt a little uncomfortable, because the emperor's change seemed to be because of her.

Looking at Bing'er carefully, she found that Bing'er had grown into a big girl, and that kind of beautiful color couldn't be hidden; She felt a sour taste in her heart, but thinking of her parents' advice to suppress her sourness, and wait until she sat on the throne of the queen, the harem was in her hands, so she should bear with it now.

The emperor nodded and looked at the crown princess: "I haven't eaten your good wine for some days - the food I have been rewarded to you these days is still appetizing?" Tomorrow you can get me some dishes. ”

The crown princess immediately became happy, it seemed that she was thinking too much, Bing'er was just a girl, and the emperor only treated Bing'er differently because of her face; He nodded lightly and bowed to the side. The emperor has only been to her once or twice these days, and has not stayed with her since the first emperor's great trip.

Bing'er was extremely happy, she didn't expect her luck to be so good, of course her original plan was a little different, and her eyes at the emperor were different: can she have a good life, it's all in this man's words, how can she not care?

Hongluan was waiting for the Empress Dowager's words, she knew that the emperor had forced the Empress Dowager into a corner, but whether she could let the Empress Dowager let her go was not certain; But what the emperor did really made her slowly calm down, and she was no longer so worried: as long as it is what the emperor wants to do, she will definitely be able to do it.

She just didn't know if the Chenglu Hall and the emperor's calculations were enough to give the Empress Dowager the steps down.

The Empress Dowager raised her eyes to look at Hongluan, her eyes were full of ice: "Chenglu Hall is a matter, just now the crown princess came in to mourn the family and didn't have time to ask." She knew that Hongluan wouldn't talk nonsense, and she knew that things could be said in front of everyone: "Why didn't you know about it before the mourning family." ”

Since she couldn't refuse the emperor's words, she didn't answer for the time being.

Hongluan met the Empress Dowager's gaze: "The slave maid just knew a little bit, because she didn't know the past of the Chenglu Palace, she wanted to tell the Empress Dowager about it, and at the same time asked the Empress Dowager to show the Empress Dowager about the Chenglu Palace." ”

The Empress Dowager's face changed slightly: "If there is something to do in the Chenglu Palace, don't listen to people chew the root of the tongue." She glanced at the imperial concubine: "What's going on, tell the mourning family." Since Hongluan didn't know what happened back then, she didn't have anything to worry about.

Hongluan said lightly: "Someone picked up a hairpin in the flowers and plants of the palace gate of the Chenglu Palace, the hairpin is very strange and hollow, because the hairpin has the name of Li Sigong written on it, and the slave asked someone who is familiar with Li Sigong to identify it, and confirmed that the hairpin is owned by Li Sigong." She saw the change in the Empress Dowager's gaze, and knew that her words made her start to reconsider.

In fact, she is just exchanging death for death, and everyone in the palace knows that the matter of Chenglu Hall cannot be mentioned, and the Empress Dowager obviously does not want anyone to mention it; However, the matter of the spell has something to do with the Chenglu Temple, so whoever is asked to investigate the matter must die in the end: the reason why a secret is a secret is that it cannot be known to anyone.

The more secret things are, the more you can't let too many people get involved, so that you can keep the secret; Therefore, it is very likely that the Empress Dowager will hand over this matter to Hongluan again, because Hongluan is already a dead person in her eyes - Hongluan bets on this hope.

Coupled with the emperor's protection, the possibility of the Empress Dowager pushing the boat is eighty percent, Hongluan finally put her heart back in place, looking at the Empress Dowager's eyes, although the fear has not disappeared, but there is no fear in her heart.

Yuan Hua also saw the change of the Empress Dowager, and immediately said: "Empress Dowager, you can leave the spell matter to ......" She was stopped by the Empress Dowager before she finished speaking.

"Your body is not good, and the emperor said that you will not be grateful for letting you take care of yourself?" The Empress Dowager glared at Yuan Hua, not wanting her to have any contamination with Chenglu Palace; After she finished drinking, Yuanhua looked at the emperor: "You have a point, just do what you say; She looked at Hongluan again: "You did a good job, but the mourning family just now blamed you; I'm not busy with spells, so let's wait until after the ceremony. ”

Although she didn't force Hongluan anymore, she didn't hand over the spell to Hongluan's hands again, and when she heard Hongluan's heart, she suddenly knew that the Empress Dowager must have a plan, and understood that her life was still in the hands of the Empress Dowager: because the emperor couldn't look at him with good eyes at twelve o'clock.

"That hairpin, call Shang Gong to take a look." The Empress Dowager's eyelids fell: "She has been in the palace for many years, maybe she can know something." ”

Chapter 596: One Step Further

Hongluan was shocked when she heard this, and knew that the Empress Dowager was suspicious of the hairpin, because it was Li Sigong who was caught by her Monk Palace, Shang Yi and others; If she had taken a hairpin from Engineer Li at that time, it would have been a common thing, so the hairpin that Hongluan said in her mouth might not have been picked up by someone from the palace slave courtyard.

It's true that it wasn't chosen, and the Queen Mother really expected it; She didn't expect that the Empress Dowager would hear Chenglu Hall after she was angry, and she could still think of inspecting the hairpin, in other words, the Empress Dowager didn't believe her completely, and it was impossible for Chenglu Hall to be handed over to her, which was really a pity.

She was playing with the idea of the Chenglu Palace, and no one entered or exited the empty palace, and she could not sneak in without a righteous and bright reason, because she could not take that risk; But she was hidden there once, and Engineer Li did go in and out of there, and then she thought about it and always felt that there should be something unsightly in that Chenglu Hall besides the royal secrets.

The hairpin is one of the things that Engineer Li gave her; I don't know what Li Sigong thought at the time, or if her people were mistaken, anyway, the hairpin was found to be strange by Hongluan after Li Sigong's death, but there was no inside when opened: the hairpin is the standard in the palace, but the hairpin in the palace will never be hollow and can take the hairpin head; Such a thing should never be rewarded to her, but it just happened.

Hongluan's things were just put in different categories, if it weren't for the name of Engineer Li on the hairpin, she wouldn't know who rewarded her; When the Empress Dowager forced her too much, she pulled out the hairpin to cover up, and the Empress Dowager really had to be fooled.

She said that the hairpin was in the palace slave courtyard, and Shang Yi sent someone to get it, but was stopped by the emperor; The emperor smiled faintly: "Let them go." He casually pointed to the little eunuch beside him: "You two go, remember to ask someone to bring some clothes for Hongluan Zhengxin." He actually had such a delicate mind, which made Yuan Hua's eyes narrow.

The emperor didn't believe him, the empress dowager's face changed suddenly, and she stared at the emperor and said, "This is what you mean?" "It's impossible for her to let go of Hongluan, what she said just now was to give the emperor a face; But I didn't expect the emperor to be so ignorant of advance and retreat, and he had to get along with her.

"The Imperial Grandmother's people are a great credit for serving you, how can the retainers let them do such a trivial task?" The emperor smiled calmly, looking back at the Empress Dowager and did not mean to avoid it at all.

The Empress Dowager's hand clasped: "Do you know what you're doing?" She was really angry: "You have to think clearly. She said this very lightly, but with an inexplicable pressure, the people in the palace held their breath; No one doesn't know what she means.

The imperial concubine's face was shocked, and she looked at the empress dowager and persuaded the emperor: "Your Majesty, the empress dowager's phoenix body is important." That meant to make him take a step back.

The emperor looked at the Empress Dowager and said calmly: "Of course the grandson has thought clearly, the imperial grandmother knows the grandson best, if the grandson doesn't think about it, will he mess around?" He looked at the people in the palace and added: "The phoenix body of the imperial grandmother is important, it is better not to be angry; It's just a matter of going to the palace slave courtyard to get something, and the imperial grandmother will let someone go if she wants to. ”

After he finished speaking, he sat back in his chair and looked at Manager Liu: "Help Hongluan up, it's very cold on the ground." In this way, he made it clear that he wanted to have a hard time with the Empress Dowager, and refused to give in to each other.

The Empress Dowager stared at the emperor with fire in her eyes, she just said that according to the emperor's meaning, she meant to give the emperor a step, but also to give herself a step, and at the same time hinted that the emperor should not go too far; But I didn't expect this grandson to be more difficult to deal with than my son, so I didn't pay attention to her meaning at all, and said in front of the palace concubines above the palace: Hongluan, he is sure

She hated it so much that she had already moved the mind of abolishing the emperor, and the murderous intent in her eyes loomed; She wants to be an obedient emperor, not an emperor who opposes her everywhere; If the emperor continues to mess around, the Shangguan family will no longer be the number one family, and she will really become a useless, old-age empress dowager.

The emperor met the eyes of the Empress Dowager and looked back at her calmly, without fear or panic, only waiting: waiting for the Empress Dowager's words, waiting for her to say the words of the rupture; He looked at the Empress Dowager's gaze was still that of his grandchildren, and he still had respect for the Empress Dowager, but he did not flinch.

The Empress Dowager stared at the emperor for a long time, looking deeply into his eyes, as if to see the bottom of his heart; But apart from the peaceful waiting, it was still a peaceful wait—the emperor was waiting for her decision, and as long as she said something, then she would no longer be the emperor's imperial grandmother.

Many of the people in the hall showed nervous looks, and almost everyone could hear the heartbeat of "bang bang", but they didn't know if their hearts were beating so fast, or the hearts of the people around them were beating so loudly.

The Empress Dowager understood what the emperor meant, and saw the emperor's composure and determination; After a while, she finally retracted her gaze: "Since the emperor has made people mourn, there is no need to let people go anymore; She waved her hand lightly: "Xuanshang Palace." ”

She backed down. The emperor is a kind of person, she knows it very well, the prince who has endured in the palace for many years, the prince who has tried his best to protect himself and has his own strength: if such a person is not completely sure, how can he dare to talk to himself like this? Let her believe that the emperor would disregard the world, his life, and the biggest chair for a woman, she would never believe it.

The emperor was prepared, but she was not, and tonight's events happened too suddenly, so she finally gritted her teeth and retreated.

It was just a few words, but when the people in the palace heard the words of the Empress Dowager, they found that their palms were full of sweat: they knew best how dangerous it was at that moment - if you want to abolish the emperor, it is not just a word from the Empress Dowager, it is definitely a catastrophe; And they have to make a decision right away who to follow, and they are not the only ones who will die if they choose the wrong one, and then they will be destroyed.

Only Concubine Li was slightly disappointed, of course, she was also very happy, knowing that the emperor was prepared and arranged for them to make some other changes; However, when the emperor and the empress dowager confronted each other, she thought that the emperor would take a step back, because with that chair, no one would take such a big risk for a woman.

But in the end, it was the Empress Dowager who gave in, which was really beyond everyone's expectations.

The emperor was not half happy, and the gaze in his eyes was still calm: "Yes, Imperial Grandmother." He gently waved his hand to send the little eunuch behind him away, and looked at the empress dowager: "As the imperial concubine said, your phoenix body is the most important, and the concubines are also in their old age, so they can't work too hard; Leave the affairs in the harem to Yuerong, she can't be busy, isn't there Yuanhua, Zixuan and Xian Xian. ”