Early the next morning, Concubine An Guifei asked about the disappearance again, and sure enough, her Shuxi Palace turned upside down.

Fortunately, Xia Qingyang expected this situation and asked Mingzhu to wake up and inform Si Tao, otherwise Si Tao would probably be worried this time.

"If you can't find this palace in the future, it means that this palace is here in the queen or Wanchang. What a hurry, shame. ”

Concubine An Guifei couldn't see her maid so unproductive, and lectured while eating peanuts.

Sitao wiped her tears.

After getting along all day yesterday, Mingzhu is almost used to such a scene. She leaned into Xia Qingyang's ear and whispered, "Niangniang, I had a strange dream last night. ”

"What a dream."

Mingzhu bit her lip: "I dreamed that you secretly had a private meeting with other men, and it was in our Biting Xuan......"

"This is no nonsense." Xia Qingyang was serious, "If you do this kind of thing, you will lose your head, I don't dare." ”

Mingzhu glanced at her cautiously and muttered, "Why do I think that with my mother's temperament, it is very likely that I will do this." ”

Xia Qingyang put his elbow on Mingzhu's body: "You see, although he said that he imprisoned so many concubines in the harem and let us stay alive and widowed, it was his unkindness, but I can't be unjust." It's not good to cuckold people, right? ”

"Hey, speaking of which." An Guifei really stretched out her long ears to listen to the conversation here. She poked her head out with gossip on her face, "Do you know that Concubine Liu, why she was sent to the cold palace." ”

Mingzhu shook her head obediently: "I don't know." ”

Concubine An Guifei covered her mouth with a desire to cover up: "It's because she cuckolded the emperor!" Crucially, she is also pregnant. When I first found out, I proudly showed off to us. After the result was found out, His Majesty was so angry that he wanted to kill her, if it weren't for the fact that the Queen Mother was afraid of insulting the royal reputation after spreading the news, she would have been executed a long time ago. ”

Xia Qingyang recalled Concubine Liu's appearance, and vaguely remembered that she was a beautiful and ambitious woman.

It stands to reason that if she dares to tell her pregnancy with such fanfare, Concubine Liu should be sure to hide it from the world, making people think that she is pregnant with a dragon heir, why was it discovered in the end.

Xia Qingyang remembered the bloody court dramas he had watched in this world.

Could it be that the emperor knew that he couldn't do it, or that the emperor didn't want Concubine Liu to get pregnant, so he deliberately drugged her.

Hey, so far, I haven't heard of any concubine giving birth to a child for the emperor.

It seems that the former is a little more likely.

Oh, poor Renfu. I hope that after Queen Yin comes back from practicing a circle of modern medical skills, she can find a way to cure him.

Si Tao: "How did the slave and maid hear that it was the Queen Mother that Concubine Nian Liu was pregnant, so she was exempted from the death penalty and sent to the cold palace." ”

An Guifei: "No matter what, anyway, since the woman had a silent miscarriage in the cold palace, no one has cared about her." ”

This is the end of the gossip theater after breakfast.

As an after-dinner meal, Xia Qingyang and Concubine An Guifei did not take a sedan chair, and planned to wander to Queen Yin.

On the way, Xia Qingyang mentioned that no one in the harem had given birth to a dragon heir so far.

An Guifei sighed: "It's not that Ren Fu has a physical problem. In fact, there have been several concubines who have been pregnant, but none of them were born and miscarried. ”

Xia Qingyang nodded thoughtfully.

"Fortunately, though." Concubine An smiled, "Fortunately, you, me, and Sister Yin don't have children, otherwise they wouldn't be able to leave here with peace of mind." ”

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Xia Qingyang and An Guifei slipped all the way to the queen's palace.

This early morning invitation hall has unsurprisingly become a place for the concubines to compete for "morning exercises"-

It wasn't until Concubine An Guifei's sentence "What's the use of you arguing here, it's not that you can't even see the emperor's face", which extinguished everyone's fire, and the concubines dispersed consciously and boringly.

"Sister Xuan? What's wrong. Xia Qingyang found that Empress Yin was in a daze this morning very frequently, especially after Concubine An broke out the golden sentence, Empress Yin frowned, as if she was about to cry.

Sure enough, when I asked, I found out that yesterday afternoon, Empress Yin heard that the emperor had been with Yajieyu since she returned to the palace, so she went to Yajieyu to visit her in person.

Who would have thought that the master of the harem would come out of the horse, and he didn't see the noble Jieyu Niangniang.

What is worse than Xia Qingyang and the others is that Xia Qingyang and the others at least saw Ren Fu's face, but Queen Yin stood outside the palace for a long time in a daze, and she didn't see Ren Fu's figure.

It's the most ruthless man's heart.

Empress Yin shook her head and barely squeezed out a smile, saying that she was fine, and it was important to talk about business.

Xia Qingyang then dismissed all the people who served, and told Queen Yin about her experience after leaving the palace yesterday and her analysis.

"So it is." When Empress Yin heard about the robbery of military rations, she was also very regretful and embarrassed.

But obviously, unlike Concubine An, who was stupid and didn't know anything, Empress Yin was not particularly surprised by the plight of the people of Dachun Kingdom.

After all, she is the mother of a country, and even if she doesn't participate in political affairs, she still knows more than ordinary concubines.

Xia Qingyang asked her if she knew something.

"I don't know it very well." Empress Yin held her handkerchief, "But once, Your Majesty had a powerful staff member by his side, who could take advantage of the art of heavenly chances, and also understood the method of witchcraft. At his request, His Majesty did a lot of things that went against the will of the people. ”

Well, the key characters come out.

This staff member is what the eldest princess said, the person who bewitched Ren Fu.

Empress Yin said again, as early as when she was not married to Ren Fu, the staff was already by Ren Fu's side.

In other words, Ren Fu was still a prince at that time.

"When foreign enemies invaded, His Majesty went to fight everywhere with that staff, and won many battles, which was praised by the first emperor. At that time, His Majesty listened to the staff in almost everything, even when to eat, whether to go out that day, he would let the staff take advantage of the hexagram first. ”

Concubine An smacked her tongue: "This illness is not light." ”

Xia Qingyang: "But now it seems that there is no such person?" ”

Empress Yin nodded: "Yes." Because when the first emperor was seriously ill, the queen mother summoned Her Majesty to her and said that if she wanted to inherit the throne, she must send that staff out of the country, and she must no longer listen to him. Then His Majesty obeyed and drove the man away. ”

Xia Qingyang's brows moved slightly.

Empress Yin sighed: "Later it turned out that this staff member did use his power to bend the law for personal gain and enrich his own pockets, and the treasury almost emptied him. It's just that His Majesty trusted him too much in the past, so that no one dared to tell the truth. After His Majesty succeeded to the throne, many officials impeached that staff member one after another, and the evidence was ironclad. ”