In the Heart Nourishing Palace, the emperor had a sick face, and there was a strong smell of medicine everywhere.

After the queen entered, she looked at the emperor's appearance, and her heart was also shocked, it seemed that overnight, the emperor was much older and haggard.

She came to the bed and called out softly, "Your Majesty." ”

The emperor said "um", opened his eyes, looked at the empress and said, "Sit down!" ”

The queen takes her seat.

The emperor said, "Are they all gone?" ”

"The concubines let them all go back." The empress looked at the emperor, "The children are very worried, Your Majesty, you have to take care of the dragon's body." ”

The queen's tone sounded flat, but when she listened closely, she still hid worry and concern.

The Emperor stretched out his hand, "Help me up." ”

The queen stretched out her hand and helped the emperor up, and the discerning chamberlain immediately took a pillow and let the emperor lean on it.

The emperor found a comfortable position to sit down, then looked at the queen carefully, and said to her: "Mingyan, I am old, and you are also old." ”

The emperor's eyes turned red, "Your Majesty is not old." ”

The emperor shook his head, reached out to touch her face, and sighed, "Over the years, I can't stand you and snub you. ”

Over the years, the queen has not made any mistakes, it can be said that she is cautious, for fear of being found out by the emperor, but even so, once or twice a month, because of trivial matters, she was harshly reprimanded and treated coldly by the emperor.

It is well known and not a secret that the emperor suppressed the crown prince, even with the empress, and was not embarrassed.

What has the emperor done over the years, he is even more clear, usually he is sick, like this kind of service, will not let the queen close, the mother of a country, every time is locked out, the queen can only come and go, except for the fifteenth day of the first month of the month, the emperor will not set foot in the Fengyi Palace, the queen is also interested, will not invite.

The queen doesn't make big mistakes, the emperor can't deal with it, he can only reprimand and treat her coldly, he can't get rid of her phoenix seal, and the prince never makes mistakes, even if the emperor knows that his prestige and reputation overshadow his father, he can only suppress the cold treatment, and he can't depose the prince.

Therefore, for his wife and son-in-law, after so many years, he looked back and found that what he could recall was really not a happy scene.

The most he can recall is that in the first few years of his wedding to the queen, he was also married and beautiful, because she was happy and praised for giving birth to a bright son for him.

But that was a long time ago.

Tears fell from the queen's eyes, and she choked slightly, "Your Majesty didn't live with the concubines, but the concubines didn't like Your Majesty, and the prince was dignified since he was a child, so he couldn't be coquettish to His Majesty, and His Majesty didn't like it." ”

The person who likes to say pleasing words to please the emperor is the eldest prince Yan Li, and the person who likes to see the wind and make the rudder will be coquettish is the second prince Yan Lin, although Yan Echo is the son-in-law, but he was named the prince because he was born, so he can't do these behaviors, especially although Qin Taifu is good at learning, he is upright and polite, and he can't teach the improperly prince.

The emperor shook his head and handed her a handkerchief, "You are my queen, how can I not like you?" As a prince, the prince is self-respecting. None of this is fault. ”

The queen was silent, took the veil, and gently wiped her tears. But I thought in my heart, these are not faults, so what is faults? Blame her for being too dignified and having the demeanor of a mother? Blame the prince for not being virtuous and well-cultivated and loved by the people?

Seeing that the queen was silent, the emperor asked insightfully: "Mingyan, have you been strange in your heart?" ”

The queen shook her head, "The concubine is not to blame. ”

It's not that you don't dare, it's not to blame. She knew that the emperor liked to hear this, so she wanted to hear her say that she was not weird, so she just said it.

The emperor held her hand and sighed, "Mingyan, I sit in this position, there are many things, and I can't help myself. ”

The queen nodded, "The concubine understands, so the concubine has never cried with His Majesty." ”

It's the truth.

The emperor bowed his head, "Yes, crying children have candy to eat." ”

He clenched the queen's hand, "The precious concubine will cry, so I have favored her a little over the years." ”

The queen thought to herself, not only the precious concubine, but also the virtuous concubine and the virtuous concubine, as soon as the precious concubine showed her displeasure, the emperor offered all the good things, and the virtuous concubine and the virtuous concubine were crying and begging for favor at every turn, pleasing and saying good things. You can eat sugar.

As a queen, she can't be like them, otherwise she is not dignified, His Majesty will reprimand, and the courtiers will have a lot of complaints. Anyway, what they can do, she can't do.

The emperor said: "I didn't expect the precious concubine to do so many wrong things behind my back, especially, she actually tied up the woman of the Su family and killed Su Rong." It's really in vain that I gave her a title of precious words. ”

The queen didn't know what to say, so she could only say: "The concubine is really unexpected, I don't know why she's the reason?" Since he entered the palace, for more than ten years, His Majesty has been very fond of her, and has never treated her badly, it stands to reason that she should not and has no reason to do these things. In addition, how did she keep so many killers in the palace all the time? ”

The emperor's face was ugly, "I interrogated me last night, she didn't say whether she was alive or dead, but although I have been fooled by her for many years, I am not a fool, she is a noble concubine, for so many years, because of her, who has made profits, after a little thought, you will know." ”

He said with a dark face: "I have already sent someone to check on the Marquis of Nanping and Zhang Ping. ”

Although the precious concubine was sent to the palace by the Nanping prefect, the Nanping prefect was under the jurisdiction of the Nanping Marquis and had nothing to do with the Nanping Marquis. In addition, the Pingxi General's Mansion seems to be incompatible with the precious concubine, but because of the fire fox skin incident, he dedicated it to the precious concubine, relieving him and the prince of anger and coaxing the beauty, which is equivalent to buying his heart, and most of the silver in the treasury flows into northern Hebei, and he is the one who makes the most profits, so he doesn't believe that it has nothing to do with it.

The queen thought of such things in her heart, since Her Majesty felt that the crown prince had become a threat to him, he had never spoken to her for at least seven or eight years, and now he fell ill because of the precious concubine, so he told her.

The queen couldn't guess what the emperor was thinking at this time, whether she really wanted to talk to her to make up for and save their husband and wife relationship, or whether she wanted to test her to see if she and the crown prince wanted to take advantage of the current situation that suppressed the eldest prince, the second prince and the fourth prince to start a counterattack, so that he panicked, for fear that they would do something to him, the emperor, so that the crown prince could ascend the throne smoothly.

It's no wonder that the queen thinks so in her heart, in fact, the companion is like a tiger, and the sick-looking emperor in front of her knows how to grasp people's hearts and test people's hearts.

She has been a queen for more than 20 years, not to mention that she knows him best, but also knows eight or nine points.

She looked sad and said with relief: "General Nanping Hou and General Pingxi have been quite loyal for many years, maybe Your Majesty is too worried. Your Majesty still carefully take care of your body first, up and down the government and the opposition, a lot of things are waiting for Your Majesty to deal with, the first snow of this winter has fallen for three days and nights, the prince is worried that there will be a snow disaster in the place, you must take care of the dragon body. ”

The implication is that the world is still yours, and you are counting on you to call the shots.

(End of chapter)