Chapter 289: Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law
"Isn't that just right?" The elder palace maid smiled and said in a relaxed tone, "The queen mother's intention to detain the warm beauty in Xuanming Palace was just told by you to the warm beauty!" The queen hasn't looked for a warm beauty for the past two days, and now she is suddenly looking for her, in addition to the new changes in His Majesty's condition, or if she has made up her mind to do it, what else can it be? ”
She said casually, "So if something happens to this warm beauty after she goes back, we don't have to worry so much, just spread the news outside the palace, and ask Gu Xiang and them to summon hundreds of officials to enter the palace...... You don't have to talk too much about the rest of the matter, right? ”
The old emperor has been critically ill for a few days, and the hundred officials suddenly entered the palace with the crown prince, which is of course preparing to succeed to the throne - to be precise, it is preparing to succeed in front of the spirit.
Concubine Cui groaned: "I'm afraid that His Majesty will still be there when the prince enters the palace, but in that case, he will be unable to advance or retreat!" ”
Not only can he not advance or retreat, but he also has the impression that he wishes his father would die early.
This is to be put in the history books.
"What do you mean?" When the elder palace maid heard this, her eyes flashed, and she bowed down and asked.
"It's better to be safe." Concubine Cui narrowed her eyes, "If this palace is at ease, you can also rest assured, aren't you?" ”
The elder palace maid smiled meaninglessly: "As long as the mother doesn't forget what she promised......"
"Don't say that it seems that you haven't bothered about this issue since you contacted this palace!" Concubine Cui said in a cold tone, "What's more, if it comes true, what you ask for is simply not worth mentioning to this palace - what does this palace do to risk ruining your reputation and turn against you?" ”
The old palace maid seemed to have thought about it, and said with her head bowed: "In this case, please write a letter to the mother and pass it to the East Palace, so as to teach His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to relieve the remaining poison and enter the Xuanming Palace to serve His Majesty!" ”
She deliberately bit the word "service", the meaning of which is self-evident, Concubine Cui's eyes flashed a touch of ruthlessness, stroked her sideburns, and said with a smile: "There is no need for a handwritten book, in case someone finds out when you leave the palace, isn't it self-defeating?" What's more, the crown princess is currently presiding over the East Palace, and the daughter-in-law of the palace is a very smart person, so she only needs to go with the things she has in the palace, and it is expected that she must have a plan. ”
The older palace maid didn't mind her precautions, and bowed slightly when she heard this: "Please also ask the mother to give me a token!" ”
…… At about the same time in the East Palace, the crown princess was taking the handkerchief from Shiwan's hand and wiping the fine beads of sweat from her forehead: "Your Highness, will it be better?" ”
"Back to Niangniang's words, the imperial doctor said that it had eased up." Shi Wan's face turned slightly pale, and she cautiously said, "It's just that Your Highness will be poisoned too deeply, and the Imperial Doctor is afraid that ......."
The crown princess frowned: "What? ”
"The Imperial Doctor said that I am afraid it will damage the foundation of His Highness." Shiwan looked down at the palace bricks, and didn't dare to look at the princess's expression out of the corner of her eyes, "Although it is said that His Royal Highness has a good foundation, but the medicinal properties are too strong, if His Royal Highness does not concentrate on recuperating for three and five years in the future, I am afraid that I will ...... I'm afraid that I will follow in the footsteps of His Majesty! ”
The crown princess's hand wiping her sweat stiffened, and she said after a while: "If you can recuperate well, then it's good - as long as you get through this hurdle, it's easy to say anything; If you can't pass this level......" she laughed coldly, "What's the use of your highness's health?" ”
Glancing at the henchman with low eyebrows, "Although I said that I did this for the sake of His Highness, for the sake of the future, no one else should know about this matter!" Before Qiu Shuxia and his party came today, it was Han Ji who murdered His Highness, and the person behind Han Ji is not our concern at the moment, we will only care about one thing, that is, His Highness's body, you know?! ”
Seeing Shiwan nodding tremblingly, the crown princess waved her hand a little tiredly, "You go to see Zhong Ling, tell his nurse to serve snacks, don't ask someone to reach out to him at this time!" ”
When the crown princess was the only one left in the room, she sighed, revealing a little panic: although the crown princess is not an innocent and delicate person, what she is doing today really makes her heart shake!
- Because of her suspicion of Gu Shao, she changed the rhetoric and practices agreed with Gu Shao and others before, and before Qiu Shuxia and his party arrived in the East Palace, she borrowed the hand of Han Ji, one of the prince's concubines, and poisoned the prince's decoction.
Real poison.
Instead of the original Shen Xuan San-this thing was passed down from the previous dynasty, and its purpose was mainly to pretend to be sick, of course, it was okay to pretend to be poisoned, anyway, the people who took it, whether from the appearance or the pulse, looked like time was running out, but in fact they would not suffer any real damage, and they could be untied at any time and restored to normal.
After all, the reason why the crown princess detained the prince in the East Palace was mainly to find a reason for him not to go to Xuanming Palace to serve his illness, how could he really hurt the prince?
But Gu Shao knew this arrangement, how could the crown princess dare to continue this plan after she had doubts about him? At that time, Qiu Shuxia and the others were already on their way to the East Palace, if Gu Shao was not credible, the prince's "deep poisoning" would not be able to be concealed at all, and once the truth was exposed, the East Palace would definitely be doomed!
So at the critical juncture, the crown princess was ruthless and decided to come to the real - but she was only suspicious of Gu Shao in the end, and she couldn't be sure, not to mention that even if Gu Shao really had a problem, she wouldn't dare to bear the reputation of murdering her husband!
So the crown princess chose Han Ji as a scapegoat, and the prince recovered in the future to be investigated, at most she took care of the backyard ineffectively, so that Han Ji took advantage of the loophole, as the wife of the knotted hair, and the biological mother of the king of Zhongling County, such a little mistake and said "That will patronize and worry about His Highness, so that there is negligence" is enough to pass the test.
She didn't pick Han Ji to be jealous, mainly because Han Ji was born as a palace maid, she had been in the harem for a few years, and she had traveled to several places to serve.
But Rao is like this, this hasty arrangement, under the aggressive questioning of Qiu Shuxia and Huang Jingting, still narrowly exposed flaws!
Thinking that Qiu Shuxia finally took the lead in retiring in the evening, and the look that seemed to be smiling before leaving, as if she knew something, the crown princess felt that there was a faint ominousness in her heart.
"What should I do?!" After the panic, she was at a loss, the crown princess waved her hand and ripped off the tent, hugged her knees, bit her lip, and thought quickly, "Relying on me alone, it would be good to keep His Royal Highness and Zhong Ling from losing, and this is also temporary!" If His Royal Highness does not inherit the throne for a day, the East Palace will not be safe for a day! Just want His Highness to inherit the throne, it is impossible without the support of the previous dynasty! And if Gu Shao has a problem...... Who should I go to? ”
She suddenly thought of one thing - the prince can't see things now, and his maiden family is not so reliable, she trusts it, but this Yan Guogong is noble, but because of his age and qualifications, he doesn't have much say in the court, and now he is still trapped in Xuanming Palace!
So if Gu Shao has bad intentions towards the East Palace, why do you have to delay time, what kind of soldiers do you play to find out the truth? Directly join forces with the two kings of Wei and Zhao, whether it is to kill the prince at speed, or to find a reason to save Yichu, does the East Palace still have the strength to fight back?!
"Father! It must be the Father! "The crown princess doesn't feel that she suspects Gu Shao wrongly, after all, the East Palace has gradually fallen behind in the competition for the crown prince for most of the past half a year, it may be wrong to say that it is all thanks to Gu Shao, but Gu Shao definitely didn't do his best! From this point of view, the only one who protects the East Palace and makes the Manchu Dynasty civil and military dare not move without permission can only be Emperor Xianjia!
- Although it has been said that Emperor Xianjia has been in a coma for three or two days, with the achievements of this emperor, how is it possible to say that he has no hole cards in his hand, and he can still shock all parties during the period when he is unconscious?
The problem is that this speculation not only failed to make the crown princess breathe a sigh of relief, but instead felt more and more drenched in cold sweat, "Then I borrowed Han Ji's hand today to poison His Highness, can't I hide it?!" ”
Although she said that she did this, the conscience of heaven and earth was afraid that the prince would be cheated and had to do it, but it is a fact that she hurt the prince's foundation, Emperor Xianjia, as the prince's father, is still notoriously partial to the eldest son's father, will he be sympathetic to his daughter-in-law's last resort? !
The crown princess replaced Emperor Xianjia's father and son with herself and the king of Zhongling County, thought about it carefully, and felt that she couldn't leave any mustard for this kind of daughter-in-law anyway - especially since she still has no conclusive evidence to prove that Gu Shao has a problem!
"My father has always liked Zhong Ling, but in the end, His Royal Highness is his son, and Zhong Ling is also separated by a layer. Doesn't the choice of the imperial grandmother between Her Royal Highness and the Imperial Aunt of the Acting Kingdom illustrate this point? The crown princess only felt cold hair stand on end for a while, she couldn't help but raise her hand to hold down the beating heart, and thought in disbelief, "So if my father can survive this time and know what I did, even if he reads Zhong Ling's face, it is estimated that at most he will not punish me without knowing it, how can he not remind His Highness in private?" ”
And even if she and the prince are married and married, once the prince learns about this, how can she not have a gap?
After all, the crown princess will be able to poison the prince to the death of the future of the entire East Palace; In the future, will it be for other reasons, such as becoming the queen mother as soon as possible, and directly killing the prince?
There is no way to make up for this kind of suspicion once it is opened, in the end, the prince and the crown princess are just ordinary husband and wife, and they are definitely not deep enough to withstand such a tempering.
I think that Song Yi laughed at the beginning and only had nothing to do with Jian Xubai, Cui Jianlian and others, didn't the eldest princess of the Jin Kingdom worry that her daughter-in-law was too vicious, and once she borrowed the bedside, it would be unfavorable to her son, and it would make Jian Xubai suffer a big loss?
What's more, the crown princess really attacked the crown prince?
Rao is the crown princess is known as the city government, and she can't help but feel that the future is not bright: before the end of today's court meeting, she thought that the current problem was how to defeat the two kings of Wei and Zhao; After perceiving Gu Shao's suspicion, she thought that the difficulty was only rising to the possibility of fighting against her own mainstay and defeating the two kings of Wei and Zhao; At this moment, she knew that even if she defeated the second king of Wei Zhao, what was waiting for her might still be ruined!
Can you live this day?!
Just when the crown princess was in despair, there was a knock on the door, and Shiwan said through the door with some eagerness: "Niangniang, a girl came to the corner gate, and the person who claimed to be Concubine Cui Niangniang brought an important message!" ”