Chapter 141 Dark Room

The emperor nodded: "Well, it looks good." I remember the last time I saw you, it was at the celebration banquet of the great victory at Gili Fort that I gave you to the king of Qin, and in the blink of an eye, you were already the rightful princess of Qin. ”

The queen glanced at the silent He Chang'an, and secretly admired He Chang'an's cleverness in her heart.

In fact, He Changan only relied on the understanding of the previous life, and deeply understood that he should not answer at this time, the emperor has been in power for more than ten years, and he can be regarded as taking care of the whole country in an orderly manner, but this does not mean that he is not suspicious, he may be able to have pity for those poor people who will not have much impact on the country, but the more people around him, the heavier his suspicion will be.

Thinking of the two words of suspicion, He Changan suddenly understood one thing, although he said that the testimony of a little palace maid could not be believed, but he could not believe it, could it be that what Concubine Qing did, the saint really didn't know?

The more the queen exonerated Concubine Qing there, the more she actually increased her suspicion of Concubine Qing in the emperor's heart, but the emperor never wanted to declare his suspicion of anyone.

The emperor looked at He Changan for a long time with an inquiring look, and he didn't need anyone else to speak, and he didn't let the palace people who were waiting serve tea to He Chang'an and let her serve tea, that kind of look made He Chang'an feel a little hairy in his heart, and He Chang'an could already clearly feel the somewhat burning and anxious gaze projected by Lu Cheng.

After being silent for a long time, the emperor took the lead in breaking the almost suffocating silence with one sentence: "I remember, your mother, Madame Gong Changbo, came out of the Liang State Mansion, right?"

He Chang'an bowed his head: "Your Majesty, the mother-in-law of the courtier-in-law is indeed from the Duke of Liang, and she is the eldest daughter of her grandfather, Bai Han, the Duke of Liang. ”

The corners of the emperor's eyes were a little moist, but his eyes were a little blurry, he didn't know where he was looking, and asked in a voice that was close and far: "Then the Bai family is also your foreign family, has anyone ever told you, in fact, you are long, and I am seven or eight points similar to Empress Rui?"

He Changan was stunned, although Empress Herui Bai Qianyun was a person with a very high status from the Bai family, but Bai Qianyun died too early after all, and she was not yet twenty-five years old when she died, so the impression of Empress Herui, He Changan and the sisters of the Bai family's generation are very vague. In addition, the Bai family has a strict family style, and they never want future generations to think that they are born with any advantages over others just because of what characters they have produced in their own family, so even if she is really similar to Queen Rui, whether it is the Bai family or her mother, the Bai family, will not tell her.

In the previous life, although she entered the palace early, but when she entered the palace, Queen Rui had already died, she only knew that Queen Rui was the most kind person, and the emperor personally gave her the nickname of the word He, in fact, this is what he said.

The emperor let out a long sigh: "It seems that no one has told you that you and Empress Herui look like you." The family style of the Liang Guogong Mansion is upright, and he has never taught the younger generations in the family to survive by grace, which I can trust. ”

He Changan knelt down and thanked him: "The daughter-in-law thanked Your Majesty for her trust on behalf of her uncle. ”

The emperor ordered the palace people who were waiting to serve tea, sat on the dragon chair and received the tea from He Chang'anjing's daughter-in-law, and said after drinking it all in one gulp: "You are now the princess of Qin, and the king of Qin lost his biological mother when he was very young, so you are not as good as Princess Yu, and Concubine Qing can think of filling the lack of care in the palace of Yu." It is not easy to take care of a huge palace, you need to learn little by little, if there is anything confused, just hand the queen of Fengqi Palace a sign to ask for peace, the queen is experienced, there is no problem with the affairs of the palace The queen can not help you solve it. ”

He Changan nodded, turned his head to look at Queen Chen, there was a trace of relief in her eyes, and there was also a trace of bitterness, and she was pleased that she had paid for the entire harem for so many years, and the emperor still remembered it, and she also deserved the emperor's praise, but the bitter thing was that this praise made her pay the most beautiful time in her life.

The emperor glanced at Lu Cheng a few times: "Brother Cheng, you follow your Uncle Jing Wang to go to the Li Fan Courtyard, go and talk to the people of the Li Fan Yuan about the specific matters discussed with Nan'an about the matter of the Ji Guiren, what I mean, your Uncle Jing Wang will talk to you carefully in a while, but you are the one who has been mediating with the Prince of Nan'an after the victory of Jili Fort, and you are familiar with some of the routines of the Prince of Nan'an, so I let you follow King Jing to do this ......."

Lu Cheng received the order, and then heard the emperor pause and said: "I still have some words, I want to say to your princess, you can go on an errand with peace of mind, I will leave your princess to talk, and let her go back to the Qin palace in a sedan chair after a while." ”

Although Lu Cheng was reluctant, but his father had to obey him, he could only follow King Jing to the outside of Yanqing Palace step by step, and when King Jing had already walked to the door of the main hall, Lu Cheng was still so far away from the door that there were two pillars.

The emperor looked at the queen again: "The queen should also go back to Fengqi Palace first, I will naturally have my conclusion in the end, and you have to balance between Ni Concubine and Ji Guiren during this time, and you have to manage the marriage of Brother Cheng, which is also hard." I have Wu Song waiting for me here, it's enough. ”

The queen nodded, whispered in He Chang'an's ear, paid attention to proportion, and turned to leave.

When everyone left, and only the old eunuch Wu Song, who was waiting for him, was left by the emperor's side, the emperor turned around, strode forward, and walked a few steps as if he remembered: "Second daughter-in-law, come with me, I will take you to meet someone?"

Seeing a person? He Changan was surprised. is already in Yanqing Palace, who is the emperor going to take her to?

However, when the emperor said that sentence about the second daughter-in-law, she really felt that the emperor had a feeling of father-in-law, which she had never dared to think about before.

Following the emperor's footsteps all the way into the imperial study, this place left a deep impression on He Chang'an, in the last life she served the emperor here for many years, under the instruction of Lu Yuan, with a good tea to attract Lu Cheng's attention, he asked to go to the East Palace;

The furnishings of the imperial study have not changed much from the cold winter moon in the fifteenth year of Longqing, except that a red gold incense burner in the corner has been replaced with a porcelain one, and the table screen on the table has been replaced from green sandalwood inlaid with jade to red sandalwood inlaid with white jade.

Maybe the environment is too familiar, and the scenes of the past reappear in front of her eyes, and her hatred for Lu Yuan is even deeper.

Next to the porcelain incense burner in the corner, there is a screen of mountains and rivers that has been placed there many years ago, this screen He Chang'an has a deep impression, from the beginning of her last life into the Yanqing Palace on an errand, all the people have explained to her, any object in the Yanqing Palace, the palace people can wipe and clean, only this screen of mountains and rivers, the emperor is to do it himself.

And later she also saw that the screen of the mountains and rivers is clean every day, which shows that the emperor has never forgotten to wipe the screen no matter how busy he is.

Who knew that the emperor walked to the edge of the screen, but gently moved somewhere on the frame, the easternmost piece of territory of Daxuan on the screen seemed to have become a door, He Changan never thought that there was a secret passage behind this screen, a dark room!

The emperor took out a key from the old purse hanging from his waist and opened the door, and the light source in the dark room was only two candles that could light up enough for a day at a time, although it was a little dim, but it could be seen that someone was cleaning it every day, and it was dim but not dilapidated.

He Changan hesitated at the door, not knowing whether to follow the emperor's footsteps and walk in, and when he was thinking, he heard the emperor's slightly hoarse voice: "Over the years, no one knows about this dark room except me and Wu Song...... Even the other people who served me did not know that you were the third person to have been here. Do you know who this is? Come in......"

He Changan tentatively walked into the dark room, there was an incense burner in front of the two sea waxes, the incense in it was just lit by the emperor and inserted there, and the incense burner was enshrined in a scroll of paintings hanging on the wall.

In the painting, a woman looks very young, that is, in her early twenties, not wearing any complicated jewelry, but wearing a complete set of plain silver on her head, and the earrings on her ears are not jade pearls, but light yellow but velvet flowers through the grass, which makes the whole person younger, kind and pure.

As for the woman's wrist, she didn't wear any bracelets, but just braided a willow leaf with a red rope and wore it with her heart, and the smile on the woman's face was also the kind of little daughter who was as warm as water, which was in stark contrast to the tired and old state on the emperor's face.

After carefully seeing all the woman's appearance, He Changan subconsciously touched his face, and was shocked in his heart, the woman in the painting is really similar to himself!

Thinking of what the emperor said in the main hall before, He Changan finally understood that the woman in the painting should be the twenty-five-year-old Empress Herui, that is, her justifiable mother-in-law.

The emperor turned his head, looked at He Changan's stunned expression, and smiled dejectedly: "You are a smart woman, you should already understand who the person I brought you to meet is, right?"

He Changan nodded: "The daughter-in-law understands that the person Your Majesty brought to see her is Your Majesty's wife, the biological mother of the prince, and Queen Rui. ”