Reborn as King again

After my mother was taken back to the Compassionate Ning Palace by me, an imperial doctor rushed over to diagnose and treat my mother.

Outside the dormitory door, I wandered back and forth. Although I knew that my mother was pretending to be sick, as a filial son, I still had to play my part and looked worried.

The concubines of the harem rushed over after hearing the news, and they all stood with me in the courtyard of the Palace of Compassion and Ning, waiting for the results of the imperial doctor.

Zhou Ling saw that I was so worried, so he stepped forward to support me, and comforted me: "Your Majesty, don't worry, the queen mother will be fine, so don't mess yourself up."

"Yes, Your Majesty, don't worry too much." Liu Sha persuaded me with her five-month-old belly. That's enough, so as not to attract people's attention, Liu Sha said angrily: "If you want to tell the concubine, it's all the fault of the person who informed the empress. Your majesty, you have ordered officials not to enter the harem. Obviously, you don't want the empress to know. There are still people who don't have eyes to tell the Queen Mother about this matter, Your Majesty, you must thoroughly investigate and punish that person!"

To punish that person?I raised my eyebrows slightly, and glanced at He Wenliu who rushed over with the other concubines. Sure enough, He Wenliu immediately knelt on the ground and immediately admitted his mistake: "Your Majesty, it's all the fault of my minister. It was my minister who told the queen after getting the news yesterday. , please punish the emperor."

Of course I know that He Wenliu told the queen mother, because I planned all this.From the first day Xiaoba was impeached, I started to block the news in the harem, not to mention that outsiders are not allowed to enter the palace, even any letters and notes are intercepted by me, even if there is a fish that slips through the net, you can get the news Seeing my attitude, the concubines also knew that I wanted to deliberately conceal the truth from my mother, so they all kept silent.He Wenyan was probably just trying his luck, and asked someone to bring a letter to He Wenliu, but I also intercepted that letter.All the officials knew that the Eighth Prince was the queen mother's most beloved son, and He Wenyan took advantage of this, so it was stated in the letter that He Wenliu was asked to go to the queen mother for help. After I read the content of the letter, I sent someone Hand it over to He Wenliu.

Sure enough, He Wenliu had no doubts at all, eager to save his brother, he immediately went to his mother and told his mother about someone impeaching Xiao Ba for rebellion.The queen mother understood He Wenliu's temperament and knew that he had no plans, so she quickly sent people to investigate, and everything came out after this investigation.The queen mother saw that I deliberately didn't send her any news, so she suspected that I really wanted to deal with Xiaoba. She was so chilled that she wanted to fight me to the end with all my strength, so she hugged her father and brother in the morning The spiritual seat made a big disturbance in the Golden Luan Hall.I want to follow my mother's plan, in the Golden Luan Hall, as long as I am a little rude, she will pass out, and then she will call me unfilial to threaten me to let Xiaoba go, but it is a pity that Liu Shangshu and Liu Hua are standing in front of me , In front of the queen mother, she actually "slandered" the adulterous relationship between Xiaoba and He Wenwu, the queen mother simply did not do anything, and directly placed the charge of causing her to faint on Liu Hua, it seems that the queen mother was planning to pull the Liu family down.

Liu Sha looked at He Wenliu who was kneeling on the ground admitting his mistake, and said contemptuously, "Your Majesty, it turned out that Concubine Wen and the Empress Chewed. What do you think we should do?"

He Wenliu was also panic-stricken, he didn't expect that the queen mother would be fainted in Jinluan Hall because of his informant, so he could only kneel on the ground and let me deal with it, without daring to explain further.

Standing in front of him, I was very depressed. He Wenliu was too honest. As long as Liu Sha came out and admitted that she was an informer, in fact, it didn’t matter who the informer was. It can be completely ignored. Originally, I planned to "accidentally" forget about the fact that someone had informed my mother, and I didn't want to be investigated.

"Okay, Concubine Wen, get up first." I sighed, and said, "Sooner or later, this matter will reach the ears of the queen mother, and the queen mother is so angry now, if the mother later finds out, Aren't you pissed off? I'll settle this matter with you later." In two or three sentences, He Wenliu's denunciation was suppressed first.

"Your Majesty..." Liu Sha felt unwilling and wanted to say something, but at this moment, Imperial Doctor Ma, who was treating the Queen Mother, exited the Queen Mother's dormitory and walked towards us.

I stepped forward and asked, "Doctor, is the queen mother okay?"

"Back to the emperor, the empress dowager has woken up, and I have asked someone to decoct the medicine." After the imperial doctor Ma bowed, he said worriedly: "But the empress dowager still has chest tightness and can't breathe, so you still have to take care of yourself." Rest."

When I heard this, I pretended to be shocked and asked loudly, "What's wrong with the queen mother? Could it be that she has some kind of illness?"

I know that Imperial Doctor Ma belongs to the Empress Dowager, so I just heard him say: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is old and has heart palpitations. Don't be stimulated by anything at ordinary times. She should be at peace." I can interpret what Imperial Doctor Ma said as , the queen mother is not in good health now, her chest is tight, and her heart palpitations relapsed because of Xiaoba's incident. If I want her to recover quickly, I have to follow her wishes and stop doing things against her.

When I led all the concubines into the queen mother's bedroom, I saw the queen mother sitting sickly on the big purple trembling wood bed. When the queen mother saw me coming in, she pointed at my nose and scolded: "You bastard! You still come in to do it. What? Hurry up and get lost!"

I walked to the queen mother's bed in desperation, sat beside her, and coaxed her: "Queen mother, don't be angry with me, okay?" At this time, a little maid brought the fried medicine into the room , I immediately took the medicine in my hand and said: "Let's take the medicine first, and then talk about other things after taking the medicine, okay?"

Since Xia Zhisu's matter, there has been a gap between me and my mother. I no longer treat her sincerely like before, but when it comes to Xiao Ba's matter, our two attitudes are the same. Keep Xiao Ba.The queen mother sneered and said: "Take medicine? Aijia died of illness and you don't want to do what you want? Without the stumbling block of Aijia, wouldn't you be able to cure Xiaoba's crime? Aijia told you that if you don't take any bad medicine, Aijia will die. Aijia will die with Xiaoba!"

"Mother, your body is important, you should take medicine first." Zhou Ling also walked to the bed of the mother, and followed me to comfort the mother: "The Eighth Prince's rebellion is his business, you can't make it up yourself, and the harem is not allowed to interfere in politics. You are not only displeasing, but also putting yourself in." Zhou Ling looked at He Wenliu as he spoke.No matter how much He Wenliu hated Zhou Ling, but hearing what Zhou Ling said, his expression became a little uneasy. He knew that Zhou Ling had touched the back of his mother, He Wenliu frowned lightly, and shook his head at Zhou Ling, wanting him to stop talking. But Zhou Ling didn't understand what He Wenliu meant, and continued: "It's all Concubine Wen's fault after all. Tell the queen mother what's not good, but tell the matter..."

Without waiting for Zhou Ling to finish speaking, the queen mother knocked over the medicine bowl in my hand, spilled all the medicine on Zhou Ling's palace clothes, and the bowl fell to the ground and shattered. "Shut up! What right do you have to say that?!" The queen mother was completely irritated by Zhou Ling's words, and cursed: "You are the master of the harem, and you are the most well-informed. In order to please the emperor, you know that someone has slandered Xiao Ba for rebellion Didn’t inform the Ai family of the matter? Fortunately, Concubine Wen is not as thoughtful as you are. As soon as she found out about it, she immediately informed the Ai family. If it was later, Xiao Ba died, and the Ai family asked all of you to be buried with her!! "

As soon as the queen mother said this, everyone in the room knelt down, and Zhou Ling knelt on the ground trembling with fright, and he also knew that he had said something wrong.Jia Wanru, who has been silent for a long time, is also the first time to see her mother being so angry. She glanced at me, just as I gave her a look for help, Jia Wanru understood what I meant, and hurriedly said: "Mother, don't be angry. The empress didn't do it on purpose when she broke her body. You forgot that when the empress entered the palace, the eighth prince had already left Beijing, so he didn't know that the eighth prince was the heart of your heart. Say, those who don’t know are innocent.” As she spoke, Jia Wanru hurriedly turned her head to the maid who was kneeling at the door and said, “Hurry up, and bring in another bowl of medicine for the Empress Dowager.” It's not as close as before, but the relationship between her and the queen mother is still very good. After all, the queen mother is the one who holds the phoenix seal.

After a while, a bowl of new medicine was brought in, but the queen mother ignored it as before, but looked around at the concubines and eunuchs who were kneeling on the floor, and found that there was one person who did not kneel, and that person was Liu Sha, who was five months pregnant.Every time Liu Sha went to pay her respects to her mother, it was a nightmare, because the mother would ridicule her and make things difficult for her when she saw her. This made Liu Sha, even if she was a favorite concubine, always be laughed at by the palace people until Liu Sha was pregnant. When she was pregnant, the queen mother restrained herself a bit, but ignored her.But now the mother made the right choice, and sneered at Liu Sha: "Concubine Liu, do you have gold under your knees, or needles on the ground? I don't know if the seed in your stomach is male or female. It's just that big." Standing up, everyone else is kneeling, but you are still standing upright."

"Mother, please forgive me." Liu Sha immediately knelt down.Originally, she was pregnant with a child, so she didn't need to salute. Kneeling on the ground is not good for the fetus, so she didn't kneel just now, but unexpectedly, she was caught by the queen mother.

I said: "Mother, Concubine Liu is still pregnant with my child, your grandson, don't make things difficult for her."

"The Ai family doesn't recognize the child she is pregnant with! Her child belongs to the Liu family, not the Ai family." The queen mother said, tears came down, "You are not the child of the Ai family. From now on, the Ai family will only have two sons." , one is your deceased imperial brother, and the other is Xiao Ba, from now on the Ai family will guard Xiao Ba to live."

I took out a brocade handkerchief and wiped away my tears for my mother, thinking to continue to say something nice, but my mother glanced at Liu Sha and said directly: "The Ai family should just tell the emperor directly, you want to slander the Liu family. Xiao Ba's rebellion, the Ai family can't stop it, but in the court, as long as the Liu family targets Xiao Ba one day, the Ai family will make life difficult for your Concubine Liu in the harem. If something happens to Xiao Ba, someone will always pay for it of." Threat.This is a blatant threat. The queen mother is giving me an ultimatum.

In the end, I coaxed the queen mother, and promised her that I would never hide anything from her in the court. I would first investigate the matter of Xiao Ba with the officials, and I would not call him back to Beijing "for the time being." After comforting the queen mother, feeding her mother, taking medicine, and watching her fall asleep, she led the other concubines out of the dormitory.All the concubines were aware of the fact that my mother was messing with me in the Palace of Compassion and Peace today, and sooner or later it would reach the ears of the officials in the court. In their view, I, a dutiful emperor, was exhausted physically and mentally by being caught between my mother and the ministers.

Outside the gate of the Palace of Compassion and Peace, all the concubines greeted me one by one and asked me to leave. After Wanfu saw that the outsiders had left, he slowly came to my side, presented a small roll of paper with both hands, and said, "Your Majesty, this is the one you sent secretly. A message from the dead man who is beside the Eighth Prince."

I picked up the note, opened it, and it read, "The Eighth Prince left the country to return to Datong privately, and will arrive in the capital within ten days."

I almost vomited blood after seeing the content on the note, what is this?Is Xiaoba going to throw himself into the trap?Originally, my mother and I staged a drama of "mother's kindness and son's filial piety". After turning around, my mother will quarrel with me a few times, and I will definitely promise my mother in the name of a filial son. Everyone knows that I listen to my mother very much. They will think that I am a foolish filial piety. If I write a letter to me or something, and then I procrastinate, this matter will definitely not be resolved. Liu Hua, who was stunned by his mother, was dismissed at the Jinluan Hall, and he was asked to return to the countryside to farm.

But now?Xiao Ba will return to Beijing within ten days. He must not know that he has been impeached by the minister. I feel a headache. If Xiao Ba comes back, things will be difficult. The Liu family will definitely hold him.

I inadvertently glanced at the front, He Wenliu was leading his palace people towards the direction of Qingluan Palace, I had an idea, followed behind He Wenliu, and walked quickly to his side, He Wenliu didn't notice me, It wasn't until I grabbed his sleeve that He Wenliu stopped, turned around and saw me, and asked with some doubts: "Your Majesty?"

"Concubine Wen." I cut to the chase and said, "Do you remember that you haven't been back to He Mansion since you entered the palace?"

He Wenliu nodded, but still didn't understand what I meant, I said: "Then I will allow you to leave the palace and go home for a few days, what do you think?"

He Wenliu's expression was a little stiff, but he still nodded and said, "Okay." I knew that He Wenliu would not reject me, even though I could see that he was very reluctant, he still agreed to me.

"Just half a month, and you'll be back in half a month.