Chapter 257: Hostages
As the sky grew dark, King Lijun was still kneeling outside the queen's palace gate, and Liu Guifei came to ask for an invitation, but was scolded by the emperor with righteous words. The queen felt sorry for Rong Zhan no less than the emperor, but she still felt that it was really inappropriate for King Lijun to kneel here all the time.
"Your Majesty, it's more revealing and heavy, let's let King Lijun go back?" The queen turned on the lamp a little more, and the dormitory was bright.
The Emperor rolled over and did not reply.
The queen helped the emperor: "Your Majesty, the concubine knows that you are not asleep." Let's tell King Lijun to go, he has been kneeling outside the palace for half a night, and if he kneels like this, he will make people gossip. ”
The emperor opened his eyes: "Who dares to gossip?"
If they think that the emperor is biased and deliberately embarrass King Lijun, then ......"
"That's right," the emperor sat up suddenly: "I just deliberately embarrassed him, I just be partial, I'm not afraid of gossip." The crown prince is the prince of the country, how can he be a little prince who can rise up suddenly? He dares to dance with a sword and sword in front of the prince, what does he want to do? If he does this to the prince today, should he assassinate his father tomorrow?"
The queen put on a dress for the emperor and rubbed it on his back repeatedly: "Your Majesty, you dissipate your anger, the fourth master is still younger, and I can't imagine that there are those rules for a while." You feel sorry for Zhan'er, and the concubine is really grateful, but if you love Zhan'er too much, maybe you will hurt him. ”
The emperor glanced at her and was a little surprised: "Today's words have impressed me." ”
"What's so strange about this, people always have to change. ”
Emperor Wen Ran hugged her: "One thing has not changed, the queen will always have me and Zhan'er Run'er in her heart." ”
The queen smiled: "So, the emperor agreed?"
The emperor nodded: "Go, it's windy outside, you put on your clothes." ”
The queen came out in her clothes, and when she saw an old eunuch outside whispering to Xu Wenliang, she stopped for a while and looked at them silently for a while. Xu Wenliang's eyebrows kept pinching, as if something big had happened. After a while, Xu Wenliang waved his hand and motioned for the old inner prisoner to leave first.
The old inner eunuch knelt down, still pleading, pulling the corners of Xu Wenliang's robe and pulling it out. Xu Wenliang was also anxious, and said, "The emperor is here, I can't leave!"
The queen coughed lightly, the old eunuch hurriedly stopped his hand, and Xu Wenliang knelt down in front of the queen: "Say hello to the mother." ”
The queen looked down at him: "Eunuch Xu, what's wrong?"
Xu Wenliang shook his head and said softly: "Back to the queen's mother, it's not a big deal, it's just that the child said the wrong thing and was punished, and they wanted to ask the little slave to make peace." ”
It doesn't seem to be a problem when you hear this, but the queen has lived in the deep palace for a long time, and when she hears it, she feels that it is wrong. In this palace, the eunuchs and palace maids all have to respect Xu Wenliang as an ancestor, punish the palace maids and eunuchs, just ask Xu Wenliang to spare him, what does it mean to ask Xu Wenliang to come over and say peace?
"Who are you talking to?" the queen asked, "Although in addition to the emperor and the concubines in the palace, it is you eunuch Xu." But the affairs of the harem are in charge of the masters of each palace, so I'm afraid that Eunuch Xu can't ask about it, right?"
Xu Wenliang responded respectfully: "Hui Niangniang, not the masters of the harem." ”
This is even more surprising, it's not the emperor and queen, it's not the master of the harem, and it's not Xu Wenliang, who is qualified to punish the eunuchs and maids in the palace?
"Who is that?" asked the Queen.
Xu Wenliang hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "It's with the prince." ”
"And the prince, isn't he gone yet?" the queen looked at Xu Wenliang in surprise.
"Hui Niangniang, Prince He has already left with Gao Xiang, but before Prince He left, he incorporated more than 1,000 soldiers into the palace guards, and is now searching for assassins everywhere in the palace. ”
The queen suddenly panicked, this and the prince are too bold, the palace guards are the emperor's personal guards, he dares to stuff people into it without authorization, and one plug is more than a thousand.
"Isn't there any assassin there?
Xu Wenliang arched his hand: "If you go back to your mother, the prince ordered it like this, but I told the prince that there is no ice cellar in Dali Temple, which is not conducive to preserving Zhao Shangshu's body, and I am afraid that the corpse will rot and affect the investigation of the case." Therefore, he did not let Dali Siqing carry Zhao Shangshu away. The queen also knows that the palace is not allowed to enter, which is unlucky. ”
Without Zhao Shangshu's body, there is naturally no way to investigate the case.
The queen frowned, what is this called? Is it just delaying?
"What the hell is going on over there?" asked the Queen.
Before the queen finished speaking, the old eunuch cried and knelt in front of the queen: "Ask the mother to save the child, he is really unintentional, if he continues like this, he will beat people to death." ”
Who is this who ignores the rules so much? The queen wrinkled her eyebrows and looked at Xu Wenliang: "Go quickly, don't make trouble for people's lives, it's unlucky to celebrate the festival." ”
Xu Wenliang answered, hurriedly picked up the old eunuch, and went to the place where they lived. Looking at their backs, the queen hesitated a little and called an old lady over: "You go to Concubine Liu's palace to deliver the decree, and the palace has a few words to tell her." ”
What does this prince want to do? Take advantage of the chaos to force the palace?
Among the palace guards, there are more than 1,000 Xiao Rongshen's government soldiers, which must have been carefully selected by him, and they must be able to use one as ten. If you really clash with him, the internal guards may not be able to guard the palace gate. With Xiao Rongshen's ruthless energy, he would definitely be able to break through the nine palace gates within an hour and approach the emperor's bedroom.
In this situation, there is only one way - to take hostages.
There was one outside the door, but the queen didn't take him seriously. Although Xiao Rongcheng and Xiao Rongshen grew up together, with Xiao Rongshen's cold-blooded character, Xiao Rongcheng really has no qualifications to be a hostage. Looking at the palace, only Liu Guifei is the only one who is worthy of this position. She is Xiao Rongshen's biological mother, no matter how cold-blooded Xiao Rongshen is, he will not ignore her life and death, right?
The queen glanced outside the courtyard, Xiao Rongcheng was still kneeling, and his body was as strong as a bear. The sky has not yet fully brightened, and it is really a little chilling to kneel at the door with such a person.
The queen returned to the dormitory, sat quietly at the table and thought about it, if there was no matter of installing soldiers with the prince, she could have let Xiao Rongcheng leave with confidence, but in this situation, wouldn't letting Xiao Rongcheng go back would give Prince He wings?
The emperor rolled over and looked at her: "Is he gone?"
The queen was stunned, returned to the bedside and said, "The emperor still don't sleep, the concubine is worried that something big will happen in the palace." ”
The emperor looked at her silently, with almost no expression on his face: "What's wrong?"
"He and the prince have privately installed more than 1,000 government soldiers in the palace guards, and now those people are all over the palace to catch assassins. The queen's head sweated anxiously, and she said, "Your Majesty, where are there any assassins?" Zhao Shangshu's death was obviously a deliberate attempt to blame the crown princess. What do you think he's going to do?"
The queen thought that the emperor would be surprised, but he didn't react, which made the queen a little strange: "Your Majesty, you don't seem to be surprised at all?"
Surprised? What's so surprising about this, anyway, it's not the first time, he's used to it. When he forced the first emperor of the palace, it was his good son who took the palace guards to work against him, and he was called "King Qin's escort". But Xiao Rongshen is careful about this, how can he, a father, not understand?
When he forced the first emperor of the palace back then, Xiao Rong begged the first emperor to make him the emperor's grandson, and the internal supervisor had already told him. This time, Xiao Rongshen also wanted to seize power, but this time it was more effective.
The countermeasures have been in place for a long time, but they are not yet ready to be used. The Emperor looked at the sword at the top of the shelf, and felt very uncomfortable. Although he had never expected anything from this son, the emperor still felt sad that he had become what he is today.
Father and son are connected by blood, and until the last resort, that ruthless trick cannot be used.
In fact, he also knew that Xiao Rongshen had been waiting, waiting for an opportunity to kill himself. In fact, he was also waiting, waiting for Xiao Rongshen to reveal himself. There was a small mechanism hidden in the hilt of the sword, which contained a deadly poison, which was the final destination he had prepared for Xiao Rongshen.
It is impossible for Xiao Rongshen to implement the new policy, even if he wants to be a rich and free king without saying a word, it is impossible. As long as he doesn't die for a day, he will continue to fight with Rong Zhan.
The emperor put on his clothes: "What about Xu Wenliang?"
He and the prince's people ran rampant in the palace, and they also overstepped their authority and beat the inner eunuchs in the palace, and the concubine asked the eunuch Xu to make peace. ”
"Say peace?" the emperor frowned: "Well, say peace." ”
The concubine made an assertion and invited Liu Guifei over. The queen lit the lamps in the dormitory one by one.
The Emperor nodded: "I also have something to say to her." ”
The fourth prince was still kneeling outside the palace, and the concubine thought that he should not be let go back at this moment, but he always knelt there, and it was inconvenient for the concubines to go in and out. ”
The emperor answered, but did not answer the question: "Don't worry about him if you freeze to death." ”
The queen didn't say anything more, and served the emperor to change clothes and wash.
The queen asked someone to invite Liu Guifei when she was ugly, but Liu Guifei was an hour late. The emperor was sitting in the room eating, Liu Guifei was wearing a gorgeous costume, and the demon walked in provocatively: "The concubine asks the emperor for peace, and the queen for the queen." ”
The emperor put down the spoon, and his heart was not happy. Xiao Rongshen is presumptuous, and his mother is also presumptuous, and the feelings for the presumptuous nature of their vein have been passed down from generation to generation.
"Liu Guifei," the emperor has always called her the small character Lingjun, and suddenly called her position, which seemed quite ironic. The emperor looked at her coldly: "When did the empress send you back and forth?"
Liu Guifei lowered her eyes, the queen summoned in the middle of the night, did she have to come in the middle of the night? Anyway, she also gave birth to the eldest son of the emperor, do you even have to hold on to this little novel?
"Back to the emperor, the concubine drank soothing soup last night and slept too deeply, so that she missed the summons of the mother and asked the emperor to forgive her sins. ”
The emperor didn't bother with her, but only snorted: "Concubine Liu, do you know what to call you?"