love palace

How vast the sky is, with white clouds floating, Ke Weiqing fantasizes about galloping under the sky with his beloved horse "Red Shadow", leaving behind all worries and sorrows, but...

Open your eyes, there is only a scaffold covered by a vine leaf above your head, and you can only glimpse a corner of the so-called blue sky.This is the front yard of Xinuange, not the endless grassland.

When he heard that two generals, Liu Ren and Fei Ying, were about to set off to Liang Guo to wipe out the bandits, Ke Weiqing was inevitably a little excited. He also wanted to do something for Huang Ye and the country to make up for the mistakes he made, but obviously Huang Ye would not send him there.

Just last night, when Ke Weiqing tentatively asked how long Liu Ren and the others would be there, Huang Ye smiled and said, "About a year."

"How long does it take a year?" Ke Weiqing went to Liang Guo when he was still a teenager, and had a relationship with Princess Liang once.

"Of course, you think they are you? So you know the topography of Liang Guo." Huang Ye reached out and grabbed Ke Weiqing's chin.

"That...the minister can...!" Ke Weiqing's eyes shone with excitement.

"No." Huang Ye sealed Ke Weiqing's unspoken request with a kiss, and then did not give him a chance to speak again throughout the night.

"If this continues, I will become useless." Ke Weiqing raised his head in despair, thinking negatively, "The emperor hates worthless people the most!"

Although not long ago, he was decreed to be a concubine, but the imperial decree that the emperor asked him to write on his behalf was very simple, such as rewarding officials, repairing palaces, etc. In other words, anyone who can read and write can do it competent.

"Master Ke, what are you doing?" Beidou walked in with a smile on his face, wearing an official uniform and carrying a paulownia medicine box on his back.

All the masters in the palace, the little prince and the little princess are all well, and he is naturally in a good mood, because he has time to study various pills.

No, he brought Ke Weiqing a lot of medicines to soothe the nerves and recuperate the body, and they were formulated for Wuque people.

"Beidou, you came just in time." Ke Weiqing cheered up and went to meet him.

"Why is there no one here today?" Beidou said looking around, no matter whether it was the guards or the maids and eunuchs, they were all gone.

"They're outside." Ke Weiqing whispered.As long as he doesn't leave Xinuang Pavilion without permission, the maids will not follow suit. This is the biggest concession for the emperor.

"Oh, it seems that the emperor is very relieved of you." Beidou said bluntly.

"Your Majesty, you don't need to worry at all... how can I have the ability to rebel now?" Ke Weiqing said mockingly, shaking his head.

"That's not what I meant." Beidou wanted to say that what the emperor was guarding against was not your betrayal, but your "escape", but he felt that it was too troublesome to explain this, so he opened the heavy medicine box lid, took the medicine bottle he brought, Put it out happily.

"Look at this, it's aloe vera powder with some rose water in it. Use it in the bath, it will make your skin whiter than Chang'e." Beidou said with a smile, "It's also fragrant, and the emperor can do it from a long distance away." smell."

"I don't need these things." Ke Weiqing blushed authentically, shaking his head.

"Oh, don't you want it? Concubine Lan Gui likes it so much, I'm not even willing to give it to her." Beidou felt it was a pity, and put the delicate white porcelain medicine bottle back.

"Then this! It has miraculous effects on invigorating blood and strengthening muscles and bones. Didn't you say that when you practice swords, your arms can't exert strength..."

"Big Dipper." Ke Weiqing interrupted, his voice a little soft.

"Huh?" Beidou continued to search for strange special medicines.

"Have you..." Ke Weiqing lowered his head and said like a mosquito, "That... medicine."

"What?" Beidou naturally didn't hear it, so he couldn't help but raise the volume.

"If you eat it, you won't get pregnant..." Ke Weiqing could only raise his head and look at him in embarrassment.

"What? You want contraceptives?" Beidou looked surprised, "Why? People in the palace, who don't want to be pregnant with a dragon child as soon as possible!"

"Because... I already have Qing'er," Ke Weiqing didn't want to get pregnant again. The existence of Qing'er has already brought a lot of criticism to the emperor. If there is any more...

"I know you suffered a lot when giving birth, but it's not so easy to get pregnant, not to mention taking that kind of medicine is very harmful to your body..." Beidou persuaded, he didn't want to move his head.

"I'm not afraid of the hard work of having a baby, but I don't want to have one!" When Ke Weiqing said this, he had no idea that Huang Ye had already arrived in the yard.

As the guards withdrew far away, they couldn't hear the voice of shouting long live. In addition, Huang Ye didn't want to disturb Ke Weiqing's rest, so he got off the chariot in advance and walked in.

Huang Ye saw Ke Weiqing and Beidou standing in front of a round stone table under the lush wisteria trellis, talking, he wanted to walk over, but heard Ke Weiqing saying that he didn't want to have a baby?

The iron bowl-like fist was clenched immediately, as if this could stop the heart-piercing pain!Ke Weiqing hates having his child so much?Why?Violent anger surged in Huang Ye's chest, but what crushed Huang Ye more than this anger was heartbroken grief.

The sharp-eyed Big Dipper, through the dense green vine leaves, suddenly saw the emperor standing beside the moon gate with a pale face.

"That, that Wei Qing." Even the adults forgot to address him, Beidou packed the medicine bottle, "I know you are joking, right?"

"What?" Ke Weiqing turned his back to the emperor, naturally he didn't understand why Beidou suddenly panicked.

"So, we'll talk about this later." Beidou winked, implying that there was someone behind him.

"No, since you have this medicine, give it to me." Ke Weiqing misunderstood his intentions, and promised, "I won't tell the emperor."

"Ke Weiqing! You are so courageous!" Before the words fell, a roar like a thunderstorm shocked Ke Weiqing and Beidou!

Ke Weiqing turned around abruptly, seeing Huang Ye striding towards him, his face was full of anger!

"Your Majesty, please calm down! That's all Master Ke's joke!" Seeing that the situation was wrong, Bei Dou quickly knelt down and kowtowed.

"I...!" Ke Weiqing wanted to say something, but because Huang Ye suddenly reached out, grabbed his arms and folded them behind his waist, he lost his voice in pain.

"How dare you not want my child?!" Huang Ye's eyes almost burst into flames, but the voice was so sad, as if it was broken, piercing Ke Weiqing's heart.

"It's not that I don't want...but...!" Ke Weiqing panicked and said in a panic.

"Stop sophistry! Do you still want to have a child for Yonglin? Ke Weiqing! You have let me down!" Huang Ye was furious, and had tens of thousands of words to scold, but when the words came to his lips, he said The most taboo thing in his heart.

He tied Ke Weiqing with power, but he couldn't keep his heart. Knowing this, why did he persist?Make each other suffer.

"Your Majesty!" Ke Weiqing bit his lips tightly, enduring the severe pain of twisting his arm, and said anxiously, "I didn't mean that... There is nothing between Chen and Yonglin."

"Do you think I will still trust you...? You actually cheated on me and engaged in this kind of deed with the imperial physician! I really should put you in limbo and make you never see anyone for the rest of your life!"

"The emperor calm down! This matter..." Beidou said hastily.

"Get out, get out of here!" Huang Ye was even more annoyed.

"Yes." Beidou hurriedly picked up the medicine box.I don't want to stay here and continue to add fuel to the fire.

"Wait a minute." The next moment, Huang Ye shouted loudly again.

"Yes!" Beidou quickly knelt down again.

"You are not allowed to come in here anymore. Pass on the order, no one except me is allowed to step in here!" Huang Ye said in a deep voice.

"...The next official obeys the order." Doesn't this edict show that Xinuang Pavilion has become a cold palace?Cold sweat broke out on Beidou's forehead, but he had to obey.

"Your Majesty!" After Beidou retreated, Ke Weiqing tried to calm Huang Ye's anger, "I really didn't mean that! I have never been with Yonglin..."

If possible, he is willing to have many children for Huang Ye, even if he is a man.However, doing so would endanger Huang Ye's throne, and the late emperor's worries would become a reality.

"I don't want to listen to you anymore!" Huang Ye pushed Ke Weiqing away.Because he was afraid that if this continued, he would be so angry that he would kill him.

"Your Majesty!" Ke Weiqing thumped and knelt down.

"Your kneeling is nothing to me! Because you are in my heart, and you are no longer the Ke Weiqing before." After Huang Ye finished speaking, he turned mercilessly and walked along the way he came, without turning his head. I went back.

Ke Weiqing propped his hands on the ground, the infinitely enlarged shadow of green leaves in front of his eyes.Although he knew that in Huang Ye's heart, he was no longer a loyal minister, but hearing it with his own ears, he would be hit so hard!It's like dying!

so cold!No matter how hot the sun was, it couldn't give a trace of warmth. Ke Weiqing's face was pale, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead. After that, his stomach was stirred like a stab, and he shivered and vomited.

Because no one came, no one noticed when he fell to the ground in pain.

Layer after layer of cold sweat broke out on his body, and his clothes were wet. This feeling seemed familiar. Ke Weiqing suddenly realized something, his hands were trembling, and he covered his mouth.Could he be...?

Ke Weiqing eagerly took his own pulse. After a while, those dark eyes opened wider and wider, and his heart became more bitter. He didn't know what to do...

He almost got the medicine. If the emperor hadn't appeared in time, would he have personally killed their child? !

how so? !This fact, like a thunderbolt from the blue sky, made Ke Weiqing fall to hell, fell on the ground in pain, and began to cry...

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In the blink of an eye, it was the spring equinox in March, the weather was beautiful and the sky was clear, the eldest prince's meat-eating ceremony was held in the blossoming imperial garden.

"Come here. Your Majesty, I have been eating Coptis chinensis for three months, and I will eat honey every day." A kind-hearted, eloquent old woman dipped the tip of ivory chopsticks into some freshly boiled Coptis chinensis soup, Gently apply it on Qing'er's small mouth.

I saw his little brow wrinkled, his mouth flattened, and he was about to cry.

"Don't cry, don't cry." Ke Weiqing hugged the child and patted him.At the side, Concubine Lan Gui, Concubine Ke, and Li Deyi who came to give tiger-toed shoes stood.

On this day, the child wears tiger-toed shoes, which can drive away ghosts and evil spirits. Everyone is beaming and looking at the eldest prince with full expectation.

Your Highness is like the fairy boy in the painting, and he looks too cute.The black eyeballs are full of aura like crystal grapes, look at that small pink mouth, after tasting Coptis chinensis, and then eating honey, he grinned happily, and the two dimples became more obvious .

His contented smile made the grown-ups smile, look!This is such a handsome, such a lovely baby.

However, Shuo Lan didn't think so, she smiled back, but she was cursing secretly in her heart, "Hmph, this bastard is just like his father, so small, he knows how to wink at people, it's really not a thing!" Princess Ke Gently tugged on La Shuolan's sleeve, reminding her not to forget important things.

"I can't forget it!" Shuo Lan raised her willow eyebrows, hinting authentically.

There are many things to eat for the meat ceremony, first is coptis soup, then rice vinegar, honey and other five flavors, which means that the child has tasted all the pungent, sour, bitter and spicy in life, and will be able to grow up happily in the future.

After the five-flavor soup was removed, a bowl of broth was replaced.It is made from fatty meat, champion cake, fish meat, and frosted sugar. Mammy scoops up a small spoon and feeds it to Qing'er, chanting words and sending blessings.

"Your Highness eats meat and grows fat; His Highness eats cakes and grows taller; His Highness eats wine, which brings blessings and longevity; His Highness eats sugar and fish, and his life is sweet and rich in the future!"

"Thank you ma'am." Ke Weiqing said with a smile.

"Is this the end?" Concubine Lan asked as she saw Mammy picking up the golden spoon and bowl engraved with dragons and phoenixes.

"Back to your mother, there is one last thing. Your Highness will have literary talents in the future. You need to mix two drops of old fragrant ink into the milk, drink it, and the ceremony will be complete." The mother replied respectfully.

"Why didn't I see any old and fragrant ink?" Shuo Lan was surprised, and looked at the table full of dishes.

"Hey!" Mammy panicked when she saw it, "This, this servant was fully prepared in advance... Really..."

Seeing that Mammy was about to kneel down to plead guilty, Ke Weiqing stopped her and said, "It's okay, I have old incense ink in my study, you go and get some."

Ke Weiqing wrote the imperial decree for the emperor, and the inkstone and ink used were naturally the best in the palace.

"Yes." A palace maid suddenly stood up, and before Mammy came back to her senses, she quickly went to get the ink.

When she came back, she was holding a small plate of ground ink in her hand. The ink was as black as midnight and had a strong ink fragrance.

"This is too much, one drop is enough. Win the championship in one fell swoop, and get a lucky head." Mammy said happily, and asked the nurse to prepare a plate of milk, and then used chopsticks to dot some ink, and added it to the plate.

"Mommy, can I come?" Ke Weiqing couldn't help asking.He hoped that Qing'er would be able to study poetry and books in the future and be a person with both ability and political integrity.

"This..." Mammy wanted to say, this is against the rules, but Shuo Lan said with a smile on the side, "Your brother is the child's real father, what's wrong?"

Shuo Lan's words carried much more weight than Ke Weiqing's. How dare the old lady offend her, so she retreated back with a sneer.

"Thank you, ma'am." Ke Weiqing was very happy, dipped a little milk with ink on her little finger, and applied it on Qing'er's pink mouth.

Qing'er kept pouted all the time, but when she touched Ke Weiqing's little finger, she smashed her mouth and sucked hard. The feeling of the gum rubbing against her finger made Ke Weiqing couldn't help bowing her head and kissing his. Face, how much he wanted to hold him like this for the rest of his life, and never let go.

After today, Qing'er is going back to the Yuyingtang again, and I don't know how long it will be before we can see each other again.

"Wow...!" The child, who was just contentedly sucking his finger, suddenly changed his face, and burst into tears, but he choked up again, his face flushed red.

"Oh my god, what's going on, Your Highness?!" The wet nurse exclaimed. Ke Weiqing's first reaction was that Qing'er choked on some food, but he was not fed anything other than soup.

Ke Weiqing quickly patted the child's back, and pried open his tightly closed mouth with his fingers, but there was no foreign object inside, except that the tongue and throat were a little swollen.

In the blink of an eye, Qing'er's lips turned purple, her eyes were closed, and the little hand that was dancing happily just now drooped feebly.

"Qing'er! Wake up!" Ke Weiqing yelled loudly, her eyes blushing.

"Quick! Go to the imperial doctor!" Li De complained that the situation was not good, and hurriedly yelled.

In an instant, the imperial garden was in chaos, the maid cried, the nanny turned pale with fright, Ke Weiqing hugged the breathless child tightly, and the word "poisoning" suddenly jumped into his mind!

Reckless, Ke Weiqing breathed with his mouth, as long as Qing'er was allowed to breathe, even if it would kill him...

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In the imperial study room, Huang Ye was frowning, staring at Prime Minister Jia Peng who was kneeling below. Although he was holding a chess piece in his hand, his mind was not on the chessboard at all.

"Your majesty, you asked me to play chess. I'm very lucky, but if you ask me what you think of Mr. Ke, I will say the same thing. He is a man." Jia Peng used to play chess well with the emperor. , but somehow the topic was brought to Ke Weiqing. Hearing the protection of Ke Weiqing in the emperor's words, Jia Peng knelt down and pleaded guilty first.

"Is there any need for you to say that?" Huang Ye put down the black agate cloud, and said with some displeasure, "I don't know, is he a man or a woman? But he is my man, is gender so important?"

"Of course this is important! In the Tao, Qian is the sky, and Kun is the earth. Qian represents men, and Kun represents women. The offspring of heaven and earth can only be produced by combining men and women. Therefore, there is heaven and earth, and there is reproduction. nation."

"I understood the principle of male and female Kun at the age of three," Huang Ye looked at him and said, "However, Ke Weiqing has given birth to Qinger for me, so can't he represent "Kun"? "

"Your Majesty! Even so, he is still a man. This is an unchangeable fact! Have you ever seen a woman who can lead troops to fight?" Jia Peng was a little panicked. For the next thought?

The world is in chaos!Where can a man be a queen?Wouldn't Dayan become the laughing stock of other countries?

"Well, you're right." Seeing Jia Peng staring wide-eyed and blowing out his beard, Huang Ye smiled slightly, but he no longer had much interest in playing chess.

"Your Majesty, good words are harsh words. Although Mr. Ke has repented, his heart is deep in his stomach. Who knows what kind of troubles he will cause in the harem." Jia Peng boldly said, "Besides, he is a man. It’s not appropriate to live in a harem.”

"Zhen..." Huang Ye was about to say something, but Li Deyi hurried in, forgot to kowtow, stood there, out of breath, and said, "Emperor, Your Majesty... something is wrong! "

"What happened? You're so flustered!" Huang Ye wanted to reprimand Li Deyi for his recklessness, but first asked him why.

"That—His Royal Highness is not well. The imperial doctor said that he has been poisoned and is resuscitating... Your Majesty!" Before Li Deyi finished speaking, Huang Ye stepped off the dragon seat and went straight outside.

"Putting——Putting Xinuan Pavilion!" Li Deyi yelled at the top of his throat, and chased him out in a panic.

Jia Peng stayed where he was in amazement, he didn't want to leave, and he didn't want to leave.Isn't chess not over yet?But what happened to the harem?Your Highness...is that Qing'er?

His intuition told him that this matter had nothing to do with Ke Weiqing, and there might be another bloodbath in the palace!

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The disaster came so quickly!The court ladies and eunuchs inside and outside the Xinuang Pavilion were all arrested and sent to the Ministry of Criminal Justice for trial.

A few days ago, the eldest prince, who was healthy and lively, with a beautiful pink make-up, now has a high fever and is dying. The emperor is angry and anxious, and is very anxious. He stays by the child's bedside day and night, ordering Beidou to wait for him. The eight imperial doctors consulted all night.

Ke Weiqing was so uncomfortable that his heart felt like a knife saw, wishing to change his life, as long as Qing'er could survive!But the emperor forbade him to get close to Qing'er, and locked him up alone.

It wasn't until three days later that Qing'er's fever subsided and Huang Ye was able to relax her brows and let out a sigh of relief.Beidou said with lingering fear, if Ke Weiqing hadn't breathed out His Highness immediately, His Highness might have died of suffocation when he was poisoned.

However, the person who fed Qing'er the medicine was none other than Ke Weiqing, so no matter what Beidou said, it would not help the matter.

According to the investigation of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, the five-flavored soup, broth and other food that His Highness drank had been tested for poison with silver needles beforehand, and they were all safe. The Imperial Dining Room was not at fault.

As for the ink and milk, they were also prepared in advance, but they disappeared in the middle of the ceremony.

Everyone present heard Ke Weiqing say that he asked the nanny to go to his study to get the old fragrant ink, but the maid who went to get the ink on her own initiative cried so hard that she almost lost her breath.She confessed that she acted according to Mr. Ke's orders, and had no idea that the inkstone on the desk was poisoned, and she was framed.

Moreover, she is a court lady, how dare she blatantly murder Prince Dayan.

Therefore, the court officials pointed the finger at Ke Weiqing, thinking that he had always hated the late emperor, so how could he willingly give birth to the emperor?I'm afraid he had planned long ago to poison His Highness to avenge his parents.Fortunately, His Majesty was blessed by his ancestors, blessed with great fortune, and managed to survive.

Except for Beidou's insignificant advice, no one is on Ke Weiqing's side.Headed by Jia Peng, together with the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Officials, they filed a memorial together, asking the emperor to punish Ke Weiqing according to law.Ke Weiqing has a vicious heart and made mistakes again and again, this time he must not be tolerated again!

In the past, the papers on the impeachment of Ke Weiqing would be postponed for further discussion until nothing came to an end.But this time, the emperor not only accepted all the scriptures, but also immediately made a reply with a red pen.

Ke Weiqing poisoned the prince, and the witnesses and material evidences were convincing, so he was revoked from the position of a common scholar, and three days later he was escorted to Shishan, where he was sentenced to corvée.

This is tantamount to conviction, and the officials are extremely happy. Since Ke Weiqing entered the palace, this is the first time they have won.

Other nuns and maids who failed their duties were all executed. It is said that this was all done by Concubine Lan Gui. Although she is not a queen, she seems to be the most powerful.She blamed herself for lax supervision, so she ordered those maids to hang themselves.

Beidou originally wanted to investigate the matter privately and tried to restore Ke Weiqing's innocence, but with the order of Concubine Lan Gui, he could only watch the relevant witnesses die one by one, and there was no way to do it.

The emperor would not even see Ke Weiqing face to face, let alone hear someone pleading for Ke Weiqing.Beidou asked to see the emperor several times, but Li De sent them back in a rude manner.

After Ke Weiqing knew that the emperor had punished him with corvee, he didn't beg for mercy for himself. He just knelt down and begged the emperor to let him see Qing'er again to confirm that he was really safe.

It's okay if you don't ask, but seeing that Ke Weiqing still wanted to see his son, Huang Ye became even more annoyed. In front of Ke Weiqing, he scolded loudly, "You are too vicious! I will never let you see Qing'er again for the rest of my life!"

"Your Majesty!" Ke Weiqing pleaded bitterly with his head covered in blood, but Huang Ye ruthlessly threw him away, and immediately ordered the Ministry of Punishment to escort Ke Weiqing to Shishan immediately and drive him out of the palace.