female concubine

Chapter 102 Keding Jue Family

Coming out of Da Nei, he passed by Li's house, and the house was still lit with fire.

"If you want to see her, go ahead."

King Chu slowly opened his eyes from her shoulder and raised his head, "I know my sister is unhappy now, and I know that my sister doesn't want to lose her temper with me."

"Then do you know that when she approached you later, she used you to avenge King Yan?"

The king of Chu didn't shake his head to veto, nor nodded, "Without her, I would still avenge this revenge. Everyone is just using each other, including you and me at first."

"She knelt down and begged me, I'm sure you will help her..." Xiao Youqing sighed, and then sneered tremblingly, "The two most inconspicuous women are hidden deepest in this big house." .”

Xiao Youqing covered her hands, and stared at her resolutely, "I don't hate you, nor will I hate Her Royal Highness, but I want you to promise me that you will never see her after the child is born."

Just when King Chu was about to answer, the carriage suddenly stopped at the door of Li's house.

The coachman reported: "My lord, my concubine, there are people from the Imperial City Division."

The King of Chu stepped out of the carriage and saw a carriage in the palace lying in front of him. The Royal Guards stepped forward and bowed, "Your Majesty has a decree to ask the King of Chu to enter the palace alone."

"Didn't this king just come out of Da Nei?"

The imperial guard raised his head, "The abolished prince is dead."

The King of Chu immediately lowered his face, "What's going on?"

"After the banquet, news came from the East Palace that the deposed prince had hanged himself in the main hall, and the imperial guards on duty had already passed away when they arrived."

The King of Chu breathed a sigh of relief, and Xiao Youqing grabbed his sleeve when he was about to get out of the car, so she turned around and patted the back of her hand, "Go and go back."

As soon as King Chu returned to Jingdong Palace, the news of the death of the deposed prince came. Xiao Youqing naturally understood the purpose of the emperor's summoning.

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In the Funing Hall of the Inner Palace, the emperor who had already slept got up from the couch, wearing only single clothes, and sat on the couch in the main hall with swords in both hands.

[Just a moment ago, the person who was about to fall asleep was awakened by a knock on the door.

"Officials, there is news from the East Palace."

"The deposed prince hanged himself."]

He was furious and ordered a search, but at night, the Secretary of the Imperial City searched the East Palace inside and out, but found nothing.

The servant's announcement was still circling in his mind, the emperor put his palm on the hilt of the sword with a sullen old face, and the tip of the sword pierced the floor.

"Your Majesty, the King of Chu has arrived."

"Let him roll in!"

King Chu straightened his clothes and stepped into the hall. When he walked up to the emperor and was about to kneel down, the emperor said, "You don't need to kneel."

She straightened her bent knees, "Your Majesty summoned the ministers?"

The emperor still lowered his head and closed his eyes, "Your elder brother is dead, do you know?"

"The imperial guard who just came to pick me up told me, Your Majesty, please mourn."

The emperor slowly raised his head and looked at the indifferent King Chu, "You don't feel anything when your brother is dead?"

"I only have one elder brother, the second elder brother."

The emperor got up holding the hilt of the sword, and walked slowly to King Chu, the sharp iron sword reflected the purple figure, "Do you want to kill all your siblings before you give up?"

The king of Chu came back this time, which was very different from the past. Even the cold words of the emperor did not make her flustered. She just folded her sleeves in front of her belly, lowered her head slightly and said, "Is your majesty doubting the minister? Or is it true?" Father is suspicious of his son?"

"Father thinks your son will be so stupid? Stupid enough to choose to do something on the day he came back, and then fall into the shoes of others?"

"Qizou Your Majesty, the Inspector General is asking to see you."

The emperor looked out, "Let him in."

A servant walked in with his waist bowed, saw the back of the purple robe, and looked at the emperor hesitantly.

"Bluntly."

The servant cupped his hands and bowed, "Your Majesty, the palace servants from the Shangshi Bureau...did themselves by taking poison before we arrived."

Emperor Guan turned his head to look at the king of Chu at the servant's words. Seeing that his face did not change and his heart skipped a beat, he was still standing calmly, and the emperor waved at the servant.

"Knowing that you can't do it, you do it. The plan is so high, the king of Chu, it's so good." The emperor walked up to the king of Chu and looked at it coldly.

But no matter how he tried to force it, it seemed useless. The King of Chu looked up at the emperor, and then knelt down with his skirt raised, "Since your majesty doesn't trust me, please deal with me according to law."

The emperor gripped the hilt of the sword, and immediately threw the sword to the ground, saying angrily, "Get lost!"

"Yes." King Chu got up from the ground.

The emperor sat back on his seat, picked up the tea bowl, and reminded the people who had already walked to the door: "Tomorrow morning, you will go back to Qishan at the gate of the city, and you will never return to Beijing without a call!"

King Chu turned his head, folded his sleeves and bowed, "Yes."

After the dazzling purple disappeared from the hall, the emperor smashed the tea bowl in his hand against a pillar beside him. The black porcelain bowl from the Jianzhou Kiln did not break when it hit the ground.

"Let King Zhao roll into the palace."

"Yes." Not long after Zhao Ci took the order to leave, another servant, Huangmen, came in again, "His Majesty, Princess Chu gave birth prematurely."

The emperor said indifferently, "Didn't she be fine at dusk?"

"People from Prince Chu's residence came to report that Princess Chu started to give birth with abdominal pain not long after she got off the car and returned to the residence."

The emperor took a deep breath and pressed his forehead hard, "Let Sun Hongda rush over."

"Yes."

"Wait," he called to stop the servant who sent the message, "Go and tell the king of Chu that if the grandson is born safely, he will leave Beijing after the child's full moon."

"Yes."

The royal family's sorrows and joys didn't seem to have touched him too much. There was a charcoal basin burning in Funing Hall, and the room was very warm. It wasn't until he walked out of the hall that he felt the biting cold wind, and felt that the night was so long. It was so long that this nightmare seemed to never wake up.

When Zhao Ci came back and saw the emperor's haggard appearance, he ran into the palace anxiously to get a cloak, "It's winter, Your Majesty doesn't wear clothes..."

"I'm tired." The emperor gripped the collar of his cloak tightly and returned to the hall.

Zhao Ci stood in the wind in the hall corridor, watching the back of the emperor walking in alone, and finally stood under the candlelight, standing alone, looking up at something.

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The king of Chu galloped all the way back to the mansion on a fast horse.

"Who's in there?" The King of Chu asked anxiously while grabbing a female envoy.

"The sitting lady said the situation is not good, so just now the doctor Sun went in, and there were two sitting ladies inside, and there was no one else." The maid was hurt by being caught, and she didn't dare to call out, so she had to turn her face away.

The king of Chu wanted to break in, but was stopped by two female envoys.

"When the girl went in, she said that if my uncle came back, let us stop you no matter what."

King Chu looked at the extremely bright fire in the room, put his hands down and turned his head to sit aside.

"Did you just come back..." The female envoy looked at the downcast King Chu, "Miss has been fine before, and has never had anything wrong with following the imperial doctor's orders for the past few months. Why did you suddenly... "

King Chu raised his head, pointed to the back room and then pointed to himself, "I..."

"Grandpa has not been here for half a year, and the girl dare not go out alone, and has been embroidering clothes for you in the house. You are lucky, as soon as you come back..."

"My lord!" A middle-aged man in his thirties walked in.

"Go out and tell." The king of Chu said to the two female envoys again: "Miss Xichun and Xiqiu are the maids' personal envoys. They have been with each other since they were young and are eager for the Lord. Therefore, this king will not blame you, but you have to remember, we Chu Palace is not without rules!"

The king of Chu sat up and walked forward with a cold face, and the two female envoys backed away in fright.

"Remember, talk less in the future, and don't forget your duty as a slave."

After the king of Chu left, the two female envoys breathed a sigh of relief, and Xi Qiu asked, "I've never seen my uncle say such cold words. Now that I went to Qishan, did I change?"

The courtyard outside the house was gloomy. The man stood beside the dead bamboo, bowed slightly, and said in a low voice: "When I came down, there was only one young envoy in Li's house, and it had already been dealt with."

The King of Chu looked at the south side of the palace, and there was a look of ferocity in his eyes, "After the fruit is ripe, the midwife will come out of this room except for the imperial doctor. I don't want to see other living things in the future."

The man clasped his fists together, "Yes."

"There is also news from Prince Zhao's Mansion. The emperor summoned him after you left Da Nei."

The King of Chu sneered, "He thought he was smart and wanted to blame me, but he forgot that His Majesty is the Holy Lord after all, so let him have a taste of Tianwei."

In the emperor's bedroom, the emperor picked up the iron sword on the ground, put on a big cloak and sat down on the couch.

King Zhao got off the flying bridge, wrapped the fox fur around his body tightly with the hand stove, entered Funing Hall through the Hetong Gate of the palace corridor, and walked up the steps in a panic, "Zhao Weng, daddy summoned me so late?"

"Zhao Weng looked at the candlelight in the hall, moved closer to Zhao Wang and whispered: "Just now, the deposed prince hanged himself, and His Majesty is in a rage. He has already scolded the six kings, and you, the third king. , be careful what you say. "

"What?" Zhao Wang pretended to be surprised, "Brother, he..."

"Get in!"

A roar from the hall made King Zhao's body tremble, he rolled his throat and stuffed the stove in his hand into Zhao Ci's arms, and tiptoed into the hall.

Zhao Wang walked up to the emperor and saw the light-refracting iron sword in his hand. He was so frightened that he knelt down quickly, "I wish your majesty great blessings."

The emperor held the sword and slowly opened his eyes. He didn't ask King Zhao to get up, but got up and walked off the couch, picked up the silk cloth on the small square table, and walked slowly to King Zhao while wiping the sword. "Your elder brother hanged himself, do you know?"

"Just now Zhao Duzhi told my son that the elder brother has been doing well all along, how could he hang himself suddenly..."

"Sanlang." The emperor interrupted Zhao Wang's words, and immediately put the sword next to Zhao Wang's raised head.

"Son... my son is here."

"Did Donggong Liangdi's dystocia, was it you who did it?"

Only then did King Zhao recall what had happened in the East Palace before, he raised his head hesitantly, and looked at his father with an indifferent face, "It turns out that the palace servant Si Shansi who suddenly disappeared is Daddy..."

Before King Zhao could finish his words, the emperor withdrew his sword and kicked King Zhao hard in the chest, "You son of a bitch!"

The emperor then pointed his sword at King Zhao again, "Do you think that if you become a heir, as long as the abolished prince is gone, I will definitely set you up?"

Although the previous emperor was also harsh on him, it was the first time in 24 years that such a large anger had occurred.

"Did Daddy think it was his son's death?" Zhao Wang got up from the ground and crawled up to the emperor in aggrieved way, "Yes, my son has moved his mind..."

"Enough!" The emperor let go of the sword in his hand, and the sword fell to King Zhao's feet. A few times of "Kuang Dang" made King Zhao's legs weak in fright.

"I don't want to hear your explanation," the emperor turned around and closed his eyes, regretful that he had killed him wrongly in a fit of anger, and said with a long breath, "Get lost!"