Chapter 12: Misunderstanding
Everyone hugged me back to the Yu Palace, and Imperial Physician Liu also carefully diagnosed my pulse, and the sad look on his face made my heart flutter and beat non-stop, Siyu was anxious on the side, and hurriedly said: "Imperial Doctor Liu, you are talking!" There is no injury to the child. ”
Imperial Physician Liu raised his eyes to look at me, and said earnestly: "Girl, don't do such a dangerous thing in the future, this time it's okay, it didn't hurt the fetus, if there is a next time, who can guarantee that the girl and the child can be safe!" ”
Hearing him say this, I finally put my heart at ease, let out a long breath and said, "As long as the child is okay, it's fine!" ”
Suddenly remembering something, I turned my head to look at the palace maid who had fallen into the water in front of me, and asked her softly, "Why are you pulling me down?" ”
She looked stunned and hurriedly knelt down, "The slave didn't mean to, at that time the slave thought that the slave was going to die, and suddenly heard someone ask the slave to hold the wooden stick, the slave and the maid grabbed the wooden stick without thinking about it, and felt as if she had grabbed the life-saving grass, and just wanted to go ashore quickly, but she didn't expect to pull the girl into the water." When the words fell, he sobbed, and looked very pitiful.
I got up slightly and pulled her up from the ground, "I see, you must have been frightened at the time, I don't blame you." ”
She looked up at me with teary eyes, "Thank you, girl!" ”
"The emperor has arrived!" My father-in-law's loud voice came from outside the hall, and when I looked up, Zhuangzi had already walked into the hall door with his feet raised and hurriedly walked towards me.
The servants in the hall all bowed down and bowed to him, asking him for peace: "Your Majesty! ”
"Let's get up!" He spoke, looked around left and right, and then his face sank, and an angry voice filled the entire hall, "What the hell is going on!" ”
Seeing that he was about to get angry, I hurriedly said: "It was because I was careful that I fell into that pond, and it has nothing to do with others." ”
He looked straight at me, and then looked at the palace maid beside me, "Aren't you Madame Zi's close palace maid Hui'er?" How did you end up here? ”
The palace maid knelt down again, trembling with fright, "Your Majesty, please forgive the slave maid, the slave maid didn't mean it." ”
I looked at Hui'er in shock, "You... Are you the palace maid of Lady Purple? ”
She nodded, and I looked away from her, disappointed. Zixi's palace maid, thinking about it, things are not so simple.
"Someone! Drag her out and give her twenty strokes. Zhuangzi gave the order, and the guards went in with the money.
"Wait!" I stopped it loudly, "Your Majesty, you can't blame her for tonight's incident, please forgive her!" ”
Zhuangzi looked at me puzzled, "You almost lost your life because of her, and now you are still interceding for her?" ”
I smiled, "Then I can only blame myself for being too careless, I can't blame her, a person who can't float in the water will naturally panic when he falls into the water, how can he care about anything else." If you forgive her, she will remember it next time. ”
Hui'er stared at me with a pair of stunned eyes, whether it was gratitude, horror, or joy, even I couldn't tell it.
Zhuangzi looked at Hui'er with low eyebrows, hesitated for a long time, and then bowed slightly.
I hurriedly said to her: "Don't hurry up, thank you, Your Majesty!" She was startled, leaned down and kept kowtowing, and kept saying, "Thank you for your forgiveness of the slaves..."
Zhuangzi was a little impatient and waved his hand, "Let's all go down!" A room of minions slowly withdrew from the main hall.
He walked up to me and gently pressed me to sit on the wooden bench, "Hui'er once saved Zixi who fell into the water, why do you still need you to pull her when she falls into the water." Why don't you let me punish Hui'er and force her to tell her who instigated it. ”
"Your Majesty!" I raised my eyes to look at him, "Hui'er is a palace maid, she can only listen to her master's words and do things for her master." If it was really Zixi's instructions, since she dared to let Hui'er do this, she must have already figured out how to deal with it, and when the time comes, maybe she will kill people and kill people. I just wondered how they knew that Siyu and I would be going to be there and arrange all this. ”
He frowned slightly, his expression was extremely solemn, "You mean, someone reported the news?" ”
I nodded firmly, "I suddenly wanted to drink sour plum soup at night, but there were no materials for making it in the Yu Yu Palace, so I went to the dining hall with Siyu to get it, and I was afraid of alarming others at that time, so I didn't even know about Qingqing." It's unbelievable to be able to arrange this at such a quick time. ”
Zhuangzi frowned tightly before he said, "Maybe... I think the child in your womb is me, so I will attack you and the child. ”
Suddenly stunned, I looked at him for a long time, and I couldn't calm down and said eagerly: "No, I can't stay in the palace anymore, I don't know if I can't even keep the child if I stay for one more day." ”
His eyes were vaguely uneasy, and although he hesitated, he still nodded, "Although the child is not mine, I can't let the child put you in danger because of my relationship." When your fetus is stable, I will send you to Taoyuan Village, you can rest assured. ”
Suddenly, I shook my head, "I can't stay for a day now, since they all think that the child in my womb is yours, they will definitely not let me go." You should explain to them that the child is not yours. ”
"Song Liu!" He whispered my name, paused, and said softly, "I only explain this now, I'm afraid it will arouse their suspicions." I really didn't expect that letting you stay in the palace would make you and the child so dangerous, it was my negligence. ”
I lowered my eyebrows and said nothing, and he spoke again: "Ming'er, I will let the guards take you out of the palace, and for now, this is the safest way." In the future, if I go to Taoyuan Village to visit you and your children. Don't say you don't know me. ”
Looking up, I looked at him in a daze, still unable to speak.
That night, Zhuangzi and I talked a lot, and those words made me feel that the person who sat in that position was a person who was bound by the throne and had no freedom.
Like Liuyun, he has a lot of ideas in his heart, but he can't do it according to his temperament.
I don't know if it's a blessing for me to know two emperors. I can't guess this now, let alone dare to guess.
I'm afraid that something unfortunate will happen to me.
Zhuangzi really fulfilled what he said last night, and early this morning, a guard came and said that he had sent me out of the palace at the emperor's behest.
What shocked me was that he actually asked Siyu to accompany me out of the palace and go back to Taoyuan Village with me to give birth, which I never expected.
At that moment, my heart was filled with countless gratitude to Zhuangzi.
In order to wait for me, the carriage stayed at the gate of the palace for most of the night, and I realized that Zhuangzi had arranged things properly last night. I left this time, and I won't come back in the future, and I don't know when I will see you again in Zhuangzi.
The last time I left quietly, I felt guilty for a long time.
I was ordered to leave this time, but I couldn't calm down for a long time.
Looking back at this splendid palace, I smiled and said to Siyu, "Let's go!" ”
"No one is allowed to leave!" The voice of the Queen Mother came from behind, and I and Siyu who were about to get into the carriage were startled, and turned around to see the Queen Mother and the Queen slowly walking towards us, followed by a number of palace maids and eunuchs.
The Queen Mother's expression was very serious, this was a woman's face that I had never seen before, and even when Queen Mu was ruthless to me back then, she didn't have such a look of fear that made me feel afraid.
"I was pregnant with the grandson of the mourning family, and I dared to leave the palace." She spit out this sentence angrily, which made me stunned for a moment and forgot to reply, and just opened her mouth to refute, she spoke again: "Spread the will of the mourning family, before Song Liu gave birth to the prince, if anyone dares to let her out of the palace, she will be executed!" In the last two words, she added weight to her tone.
"Queen Mother, you misunderstood..."Before I finished speaking, the queen interrupted me, "Song Liu, you still have to stay in the palace and give birth to the child, the royal child is naturally born in the palace." ”
I can't argue, I'm really at a loss.
"Take her back to the Yu Palace." The Queen Mother ordered sternly, with a hint of disdain in her eyes.
"The Queen Mother, I left the palace with the emperor's consent, without the emperor's will, it is difficult for Song Liu to obey." Leaning slightly, my tone was a little tough.
The seriousness of the Queen Mother gradually disappeared because of my words, and then anger emerged, "The will of the mourning family is the will of the emperor, and the mourning family still doesn't believe it, and they can't control their sons and can't keep their grandsons!" ”
Stiffened, I took two steps back in a daze, and my voice was cold, "Queen Mother, the child in my womb is not the emperor at all, why are you bothering, do you want to think that the son of someone else is the prince of the country?" ”
The queen mother was finally annoyed by me, and there was a raging anger buried in her eyes, "The emperor was already fortunate to be with you back then, then you are the emperor's woman, but before she could be canonized, she stole the emperor's jade pendant and fled. You still dare to say that you have a child with someone outside the palace, what do you think of the emperor? If the mourning family doesn't teach you a lesson today, I'm afraid the entire harem will be in chaos. ”
Siyu's face turned blue, and she knelt heavily in front of the Queen Mother, "Queen Mother, forgive Song Liu's unintentional words, she just wants to give birth to this child outside the palace, not an illegitimate child with others as the Queen Mother said." The emperor also knew about this and promised Song Liu that after giving birth, he would naturally return to the palace. ”
Stunned for a moment, I couldn't help but look at Siyu who was kneeling on the ground and trembling, and said in surprise: "Siyu, what are you talking about, this child was not the emperor in the first place." ”
"Song Liu, if you still insist that the child is not the emperor, then the mourning family can only give you death." The Queen Mother's expression suddenly turned sharply, extremely cold.
I snorted a few times, "The child is not the emperor in the first place, why should I say that the child is his." Misidentifying the ancestors, aren't you afraid that the ancestors of the country will be angry? ”
"Presumptuous!" Zhuangzi's roar sounded like thunder, I stared straight at everyone and knelt down, Zhuangzi walked up to me quickly, and said sharply: "Yesterday was nothing more than saying two words to you, even if you are angry in your heart, you can't say that my prince is someone else's son, don't hurry up and admit your mistake to the queen mother!" ”
I looked at him in astonishment, so surprised that I didn't know how to say or what to say. Why did Zhuangzi say this, he clearly knew that the child was not his.
Seeing that I didn't react, he gave me a look, and I realized that if I said that the child was not his, the queen mother would not give up, although Zhuangzi was the emperor who could protect me, but he could not disobey his own mother.
Back then, he really shouldn't have told the Queen Mother that he was fortunate to me, and today, he wouldn't have caused these things.
For the sake of the child, everything has to be given up, as long as the child can be protected, what does it matter who is the father of the child now? Ruthlessly, I spit out a sentence with difficulty in front of the Queen Mother: "The slave knows that she is wrong, she shouldn't have said such a rebellious thing, please ask the Queen Mother to condemn her." ”
The Queen Mother's expression froze for a moment, and then she showed a very satisfied smile, "Since you are pregnant with my royal heir, you definitely can't live in the Yuchu Palace in such an identity, and the mourning family will give you the title of Concubine Liu, so that you can give birth to a prince." ”
As if I had been hit by five thunderbolts, I looked at the Queen Mother blankly, only feeling that it was all like a joke. Without me even realizing it, God actually played such a big joke on me.