Chapter 296: Concubine Cui dies
When Emperor Xianjia woke up, the prince had just been in front of the couch for a whole day, and was persuaded by Queen Su to go to the Dongnuan Pavilion to rest, and the queen, who was physically and mentally exhausted, sent the eldest son to the door with a loving and gentle attitude, and turned back to the dormitory, but after a cup of tea, there was a cough suddenly from the half-hanging tent-
"Your Majesty?!" Since Queen Su listened to her nephew Su Shaoge's analysis, although she chose to believe her nephew on the spot, it was not a fluke that Su Shaoge thought too much.
Fortunately, she is not a high-spirited person, and she has rehearsed Emperor Xianjia's reaction when he "woke up" more than once in the past two days, so as not to reveal flaws, which will hear the sound of coughing, although her heart is sinking and falling because of luck, but her face does not hesitate to show ecstasy, and rushes into the tent, almost rushing to the edge of the couch and calling loudly, "Your Majesty!" How are you, Your Majesty? ”
“…… Water! Emperor Xianjia, who could wake up, looked very weak, but when he opened his eyes to look at the queen, the queen still felt an indescribable pressure, which made her ecstatic expression almost stiffen.
Hurriedly went to the table to make a cup of warm water, and after serving Emperor Xianjia with her own hands and moistening her throat, the queen remembered to call someone to come in and serve.
To her surprise, after a while, all the people who were sick in Xuanming Palace were present, but Emperor Xianjia, who cleaned up his appearance and drank most of the bowl of bird's nest porridge, did not mean to settle accounts immediately, he didn't even show how much he loved the prince, only said a few words to the children lightly, and said: "I'm tired, just leave the queen alone to take care of it, you all go back!" I'll talk about something later. ”
But Empress Su didn't feel surprised or honored when she heard this, after all, there is a way to teach his wife behind his face, who knows if it is a good thing or a bad thing for the emperor to leave himself alone?
Maybe in order to maintain the dignity of the royal family and clear the way for the crown prince, Emperor Xianjia planned to persuade her to "die violently" in private?
So after everyone retreated, Queen Su held back her heart, made a cup of ginseng tea for Emperor Xianjia, and waited for him to speak.
"I'm very sick this time, and I've worked hard to remember my virginity!" After taking the ginseng tea, the emperor blew it and took a sip, but said gently, "There are a lot of things to think about inside and outside these days...... Didn't bother you, did you? ”
The queen wasn't sure what he was going to say next, so she said cautiously: "These are all things that a concubine should do, Your Majesty said so, but the concubine is going to be ashamed!" ”
"You and I, husband and wife, why do you say such things to the outside world?" The emperor shook his head and put the tea on the small table next to the couch, his tone was still gentle, but his eyes were sharp, "It has been twenty years and one year since I practiced myself, I thought that the past was far away, but unexpectedly, it was an undercurrent!" ”
Empress Su said "here" in her heart, and was about to cheer up her spirit to meet the emperor's thunderous anger, but before the words came to her mouth, she suddenly felt that something was wrong, and she couldn't help but be stunned!
When the emperor and queen talked alone at night, in the Xifu Palace, Concubine Cui was stunned: "What are you talking about?!" ”
The little waiter kneeling at the bottom looked beaming: "Congratulations Niangniang!" Congratulations to the mother! Your Majesty is awake! The court said that Your Majesty is fine! ”
- Everyone knows that Emperor Xianjia favors his eldest son, and the prince's status was unstable before, just because the emperor has not spoken out, and later he was critically ill and too busy to take care of himself, so he naturally had no time to stand up for the prince.
Now that Emperor Xianjia is better, no one will think that Concubine Cui's mother and son have come to the bitter end, isn't it a great joy?
Therefore, even if the palace ban requires solemnity and solemnity, and the joy and anger are invisible, the little chamberlain is still overjoyed, and the idea of rewarding is even more undisguised - Concubine Cui is an old qualification in the palace, and it is very generous to reward when she meets a good thing.
"This is indeed a happy event!" It's just that how did the little chamberlain know that if he had come one step earlier, Concubine Cui would have jumped up with joy, and he would not be stingy with the good news, but now?
Concubine Cui just finalized with someone to kill Emperor Xianjia, okay?!
This will say that the emperor is awake - think about Empress Su, as the original wife, no matter the background, means, knowledge and affection with the emperor, which is not above Concubine Cui? Rao is like this, and he is also very jealous of Emperor Xianjia!
Not to mention Concubine Cui?
The reason why she dared to make up her mind to kill the monarch was that in addition to thinking that her allies had hands and eyes to the sky, the biggest reason was that Emperor Xianjia was in a very bad situation at that time!
Now that the emperor is well, Concubine Cui thought of her own arrangement, and suddenly felt like she was on pins and needles!
How can you care about giving a reward to the little waiter? almost forced a few perfunctory words, so he found an excuse to send him down, and then dismissed the rest of the people - when she was the only one left in the hall, Concubine Cui was paralyzed to the ground as if she had no bones!
Emperor Xianjia just doted on the prince again, once he knew that the prince's biological mother intended to kill him, would he support the prince's accession to the throne? It's not bad if you don't abolish the prince!
No, it should be said that the prince will definitely be abolished!
After all, how could Queen Su and the Acting Princess, let go of such a good opportunity?
When Concubine Cui thought of this, she only felt a tightness in her chest, and almost spit out a mouthful of blood!
She didn't understand why she was so miserable.
"Fortunately, those people also have something to ask for, and in order to win my trust, they also told me about their weaknesses." Concubine Cui can only comfort herself like this now, "Even if they miss this trip, they may not confess to me, maybe they will bite the queen and Daiguo?" What's more, His Majesty just woke up, and the people inside and outside the Xuanming Palace were alarmed, maybe they didn't notice them at all? ”
Although it is said that after the emperor wakes up, the safety of the emperor will definitely go to a higher level, and those people may not find a chance to do it - but Concubine Cui now only begs her plan to kill the emperor not to leak out, it doesn't matter if the emperor dies or not!
Especially Emperor Xianjia, although he doesn't care much about her as a concubine, he is very concerned about the prince, as long as the emperor doesn't know what she has done, the emperor is good, and it is only good for the prince.
Thinking like this, Concubine Cui breathed a sigh of relief.
It's just that this night, when she tossed and turned with trepidation until the beginning of the ugly end, she suddenly found a figure standing outside the tent!
Concubine Cui was so frightened that she almost lost her voice and exclaimed-but the next moment, the person's bland sentence made her want to faint: "Niangniang, the palace maid has confessed, and on the orders of His Majesty, please go on the road!" ”
Meilu is the older palace maid who conspired with Concubine Cui before!
"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty ...... "Concubine Cui curled up on the couch, trembling and wanting to say something, but the person who came didn't listen to her begging for mercy or justification, after explaining her intentions, she directly lifted the curtain into the account, shook her sleeves and took out a pill the size of a soybean, forcibly broke Concubine Cui's mouth, and stuffed it in!
This pill has just been swallowed, and Concubine Cui only feels like piercing her intestines and breaking her abdomen, and the pain is terrible!
It's just that the man is very experienced, and immediately lifted her chin, so as not to alarm the palace people who accompanied her outside the night, and held her hands and feet to prevent the struggle from moving.
After a while, he noticed that Concubine Cui was no longer moving, so the man let go of her, and carefully observed the meeting to confirm that she was out of breath, and then put the jaw bone back. Next, he sorted out the scene, and after making Concubine Cui fall ill in the middle of the night and died before calling the palace people, he carefully checked that there were no omissions, and then turned around and left.
Although it is now the end of autumn and the beginning of winter, the imperial capital is not very cold, and the windows of the dormitory are always open, and the half-open windows provide great convenience for people to come and go.
After he quietly disappeared into the night, the sleeping Xifu Palace was still quiet and calm, and even with the afterglow of joy after knowing that Emperor Xianjia woke up, no one knew that the throne had passed away.
And at this moment, in the dormitory of Xuanming Palace, the prince is desperately kowtowing: "Ask my father for mercy!" Ask for the grace of the Emperor!! ”
The crown prince had never been so embarrassed in his life, his clothes were disheveled, tears were flowing, and his forehead was bruised with blood on the cold and hard floor tiles - but the head of Emperor Xianjia had a cold face, without the slightest hint of soft-heartedness: "Enough!" ”
Watching his eldest son plead for a long time, the emperor finally spoke, "Cui's is your biological mother, she did the murder of the king, I believe that you are innocent, do you think others will believe it?!" Quickly dispose of her and suppress the matter, do you know: what does this mean to you and the entire East Palace?! ”
Speaking of the last sentence, the emperor almost squeezed out from between his teeth!
"The child is willing to exchange the position of the prince for a glimmer of ......life for the concubine," the prince heard this, and took a few steps to hug Emperor Xianjia's legs, but before he finished speaking, he was kicked down by Emperor Xianjia: "Evil obstacles!" I have worked hard to cultivate you all these years, and now for the sake of your uncompetitive mother, you want to ...... You ......"
The emperor has certainly pretended to be sick for most of the past six months, but his health was not very good in the first place, and after waking up today, he has tossed it up to now, and he has been so angry with the prince again, he only feels dizzy in his head, and his words are intermittent, "You...... You have a heart...... I want to be angry...... Are you angry?! ”
The crown prince was shocked when he saw this: "Father! ”
He was brought up by Emperor Xianjia, of course, he also cared about his mother Concubine Cui, but that was in the case of Emperor Xianjia looking at the good end, this would be not good for Emperor Xianjia, the prince suddenly couldn't care about Concubine Cui, and hurriedly supported the emperor, stroked his chest and patted his back, and after the emperor eased up, he was about to call the imperial doctor, but was weakly stopped by Emperor Xianjia: "Idiot!" The stakes are so high, even if it's your queen mother, I don't dare to reveal it! This will you call the imperial doctor to come in, although your queen mother has been fooled by me to rest, if you look back, how can you not ask? Even if you don't tell her the truth at that time, how can she not suspect that you did something and said something, and she is angry?! ”
The prince was stunned when he heard this, and for a while he had mixed feelings: his own mother was thinking of killing his own father so that he could ascend the throne; But his own father was almost poisoned by his own mother, but he held back the wrath of the thunder and only secret. disposed of Concubine Cui, tried her best to suppress the matter, dignified son, this will be uncomfortable and refuse to call the imperial doctor, why? It's not for him, the uncompetitive prince!!
Although both parents are equally interested in him inheriting the throne - the prince knows in his heart that Emperor Xianjia is the one who spares no effort to be good for him; Concubine Cui is not so much distressed by his eldest son, but rather worried that after the fall of her eldest son, it will not only affect her, but also dash her hopes that her mother and son will be valued for many years!
After all, knowing that she would stay in Xuanming Palace tonight, Concubine Cui still wanted to poison Emperor Xianjia, didn't this force Queen Su to make a desperate gamble and kill him, the crown prince, so that Gu Shao and others in the previous dynasty could no longer support the East Palace to inherit the throne!
Although Emperor Xianjia immediately ordered someone to dispose of Concubine Cui after obtaining the confession of Meilu and others in order to block the news, even if there was no face-to-face confrontation, so much evidence has confirmed that Meilu and others were not lying: the killing of the monarch was at the behest of Concubine Cui!
And Concubine Cui strongly asked to do it tonight!
This biological mother first killed her own father, but now she doesn't even care about her own son?
When the prince thought of this, although he was driven by filial piety since childhood, he still couldn't bear to let his biological mother die, but looking at Emperor Xianjia, who was sick, he couldn't say anything to plead.
He buried his head deeply: "It's all children who are incompetent, and they are tired of worrying about their fathers!" ”
The crown prince has never hated his intrigue so much, if he can be like Emperor Xianjia when he was young - no, even if he has half of Emperor Xianjia's scheming city at that time, he will not be forced by the two younger brothers to seize the prince and have a slim future, so that his biological mother took risks and made a big mistake, so that after bearing the blow of the concubine's intention to kill the king, his father had to fight hard to calculate the future for himself!
"Ordinary people talk about tiger fathers and dogs, maybe they are talking about the father and the lonely?" It's just that the prince, who was immersed in guilt and grief, didn't notice that when Emperor Xianjia patted the back of his hand to appease, his eyes flashed with complexity and ruthlessness.