[Comprehensive] Empress Variations

"Queen, I heard that Mrs. Huo came to Jiaofang Palace again to do unnecessary things?!" Liu Xun couldn't help but speak when he stepped into the room.

What Huo Xian said seemed to be still in his ears, and the anger couldn't be suppressed boiling in his heart.It took him a lot of energy to maintain the peace on the surface.

After Xu Pingjun's death, Liu Xun hated Huo Xian very much. She was definitely the person he hated the most in the entire Huo family.What happened to Xu Pingjun back then, to him, what he lost was not only a queen who loved each other.His majesty was also trampled under the feet of the Huo family and Huo Xian.Although not many people knew the truth, it became a thorn in his heart.

Without Huo Xian's involvement, Huo Guang would not have done such a stupid thing.As the instigator, Huo Xian was naturally hated by Liu Xun.

After four years, Huo Xian actually thought of repeating the old trick.The last time she used an imperial physician, now she wants to dirty Huo Chengjun's hands even more.If it was possible, he really wished that he would have found a chance to kill Huo Xian four years ago, and another one would die without any symptoms.

Liu Xun just thought about it that way.Huo Guang was still a first-class official back then, if he wanted to save some face for Huo Guang, it was impossible for him to attack Huo Xian.Now when his anger surges up, he will inevitably lose his mind a little bit.

"Your Majesty, when you established the crown prince, you should have guessed that your mother would enter the palace. Mother is probably the last person who doesn't want Shi'er to become crown prince." Xun Ying's words still had a bit of indifference.

Hearing Huo Chengjun's words, Liu Xun's anger dissipated a lot.He had indeed guessed that Huo Xian couldn't tolerate Xu Pingjun back then, and now he couldn't tolerate Liu Shi even more.When Xu Pingjun was alive, it affected her interests, and Liu Xi posed a direct threat to her.

"That's right, Mrs. Huo's temperament has always been like this. She hasn't changed in any way for so many years. If this continues, I'm afraid it will bring a lot of disaster to the Huo family."

With Huo Xian's personality, if she doesn't do anything at this time, he should be more cautious, maybe Huo Xian will secretly shade him.Now, although what Huo Xian said annoyed him very much, it was still under her control!

Huo Xian wants to give Liu Xi medicine?Since Xu Pingjun's accident, he has attached great importance to his and Liu Xi's imports.There are people around them who specialize in tasting, and they will only enter after making sure that the person who is trying to eat has no problems.

Under such a cautious situation, it is impossible for Huo Xian to hurt Liu Shi with medicine.Huo Xian asked Huo Chengjun to poison the prince, but when Liu Xun thought about it, he directly passed Huo Chengjun.Huo Chengjun did not show any rejection of the matter of opposing the prince.

Looking at Liu Xun's expression at this time, Xun Ying felt a little funny in her heart.The person who most wanted to destroy the Huo family spoke about Huo Xian in a somewhat instructive way.He might as well just say that Huo Xian had already planted a disaster a few years ago, and now there is only one opportunity to detonate.

"Your Majesty, the Mrs. Huo you speak of is the birth mother of the concubine, who was raised by the mother alone." Xun Ying reminded her.

"It's said that mother Xiao is a son, father Xiao is a daughter. I think so. You are different from Mrs. Huo." Liu Xun smiled slightly.Huo Chengjun has helped him a lot over the years, if her character is really similar to Huo Xian, she would definitely not be able to do so many things for him.

"Your Majesty, don't draw conclusions so early. The concubine may have the same thoughts as my mother at some point." There was a smile on Xun Ying's lips, making it impossible to tell whether she was serious or joking at this time.

Upon hearing Huo Chengjun speak like this, Liu Xun shook his head helplessly.He looked at Huo Chengjun with obvious connivance.There is such a queen who likes to play pranks, and he is really used to hearing some words that are difficult for him to accept.It's just that after so many years, he no longer had the initial panic, only a strong sense of helplessness.

"If Jun'er ever has the same idea as Madam Huo, it must be a rare time that Madam Huo is smart." Liu Xun put his arms around Huo Chengjun's shoulders. "I believe that the queen will not do stupid things easily."

"That's natural. Everything I do is thoughtful." Xun Ying nodded in agreement, not showing humility like the others.

Liu Xun also had a smile on his lips, this time he didn't ask Huo Chengjun what he said.He believed that as long as he spoke, Huo Chengjun would be able to tell him the truth.But the less people know about Huo Xian's intention to poison the prince, the better.

Once it is spread, even if the crown prince is fine, Huo Xian's reputation will be damaged, and Huo Chengjun will also be affected.He just needs to let Huo Chengjun understand that he has guessed that Huo Xian wants to be unfavorable to the prince.

Thinking this way, Liu Xun stopped thinking about administering the medicine.He pondered for a while, and finally spoke. "Today's decree to establish the crown prince was issued, and many people began to rumor that the queen has fallen out of favor? Do you know?!"

The rumor of 'the queen is favored' was not created by him alone, and Huo Chengjun also lost a lot of energy.Now that the two have 'damaged their reputation', Huo Chengjun naturally has the right to know.

"I heard someone say a few words." Xun Ying nodded, and the imperial decree was issued, and the first thing everyone paid attention to was naturally the matter of the crown prince.But after thinking about it, everyone will remember that apart from Liu Shi being established as the prince, Xu Pingjun's father was also named Ping Enhou.

Just one year after Huo Guang passed away, Xu Pingjun's father and son were sealed together.Naturally, people couldn't help but feel that the emperor doted on Huo Chengjun just to show Huo Guang.Huo Guang has passed away now, and the power of the Huo family no longer insists on one thing in court.Huo Chengjun's dependence can be said to be half useless.It's not incomprehensible for her to fall out of favor at this time.

"The matter of Ping Enhou is not about Xu Pingjun." Liu Xun didn't know why he insisted on explaining it to Huo Chengjun, but it was indeed true.He didn't have the slightest guilty conscience when he said, "Shi'er was established as the prince, but his mother's family is too humble. If there is still the stain of his grandfather being a eunuch, his future will not be easy. Now the more I express Only those ministers will really agree with the prince if he loves him so much."

"The concubine understands that His Majesty's decisions are all based on the overall situation, so naturally there will be no gaps." Xun Ying nodded, she could feel the strength of Liu Xun's hand on her shoulder, and she really wouldn't let it go. People are slightly uncomfortable.The same action, done now, is almost two extremes compared to what was done a few years ago.

However, because they are both too accustomed to such actions.On the contrary, it is difficult to distinguish the difference.If it wasn't for Xun Ying's sensitivity to everything, I'm afraid it would be difficult for her to find out.

She designed it for so long, and it was time to end it.Xun Ying still had a smile on her face, and she couldn't tell at all that she was planning a very dangerous thing at this time.Probably, it's just dangerous compared to herself, or there is more than half of the Huo family behind her? !

"Well. What I want is a real prince, not Liu Xi who bears the title of prince. Don't worry, the queen, this rumor will not last for too long. You and I are still as usual, and the rumor will naturally be self-defeating." Liu Xun didn't think how long the rumors could spread.

Back then, he and Huo Chengjun were able to change from two strangers to a recognized lover in the harem and court.Now it's just to break this message, I don't know how much simpler than it was back then.

Xun Ying nodded, her body was still leaning on Liu Xun, she didn't even move slightly.This rumor probably won't have a chance to disappear again.

……

As night fell, for Huo Chengjun, it was just another place to rest.For Liu Xun, this was another failure.He never gave up the idea of ​​finding Huo Chengjun's identity in the past four years, but all he got was disappointment.

Even though there are more and more masters around him, there is still nothing he can do against Huo Chengjun.Even his subordinates bluntly said that if Huo Chengjun wanted to, she could come and go freely in the entire palace.

In other words, if Huo Chengjun really wanted to do something, there was nothing they could do to stop it.Such an answer made Liu Xun trust Huo Chengjun even more.

In the past four years, nothing inexplicable has ever happened in the palace, that is to say, Huo Chengjun has never done anything.

Capable of doing it, but not doing it.It can only be said that she has no bad intentions.Maybe she left at night simply because she didn't want to be in the same room with him? !

Liu Xun didn't know if his guess was correct, because he had been pretending since the night they got married.Normally speaking, he should know nothing about it.He made a wrong choice at the beginning, so he can only make mistakes again and again.Or, there is a turning point between the two.

Unlike Liu Xun's somewhat regretful mood, Liu Shi's mood today is quite good.There was no concealment of the excitement and joy on his face.At least, there is no concealment in this darkness.

"Sister, today I was made the crown prince!" Liu Shi was very excited to share his joy with the man in black on the tree.Now that he is seven years old, he is no longer as confused about some things as he was back then.However, his closeness and dependence on the woman on the tree has not diminished in any way.On the contrary, as the two get along more and more, it becomes deeper and deeper.

"Congratulations." Xun Ying said, although she couldn't hear any congratulations in her tone.As usual, she gave little of her own emotions.

Liu Shi is used to her behavior like this, the more she behaves like this, the more reliable he thinks she is.

At this time, Liu Shi already understood that his martial arts and literary studies were not considered good.Especially the legalist thought he is studying now, when he first started to study, he even couldn't bear it.But, as she said, kindness does not lie in what a person can do, but in whether the person is kind in his heart.

If you are a treacherous and evil person, even if you are familiar with Confucian benevolence and righteousness, you will end up harming others with fallacies.What they learn are just their own 'weapons'. How can 'weapons' be good or evil?

These things he is learning at this time are what his father wants him to control the most.Because he has been studying faster and faster over the years, the other father is more and more satisfied.The people around him stopped arranging his study plan, and instead focused on him.

In this way, he really achieved his original goal of practicing martial arts.Avoided more prey in Shanglin Garden, because he died under the bow and arrow.In this regard, he is considered good.

"Thanks to my sister's teaching, if it weren't for my sister's guidance, I'm afraid I still only study Confucianism and don't want to be contaminated with other things. Naturally, my father will not be satisfied, and he will not make me a prince." Liu Xi said to the tree. People are very grateful.

Whether it is letting him walk out of the shadow of his mother's death, or the current crown prince, it is all related to the people on the tree.

When he is studying, he will also have the idea of ​​giving up.However, under her consolation, he endured it all.She is kind to him, and it's not too much to ask him to call her a tutor.

It's a pity that even today, he doesn't even know the identity of the person on the tree, so naturally he can't talk about repaying it.He only knew that the people on the tree would appear at night and leave during the day.Over the years, nothing has changed.

Even if he sometimes wants to endure sleepiness and see how she leaves.He always gets sleepy when he should be resting, and when he wakes up, he finds himself lying on the bed or couch.

He also clearly realized that unless she was willing to tell him her identity, there was nothing he could do without exposing her.

Liu Xi would not expose her, but he knew the crime of breaking into the palace.He was too busy covering up for her, so how could he expose her.

"I'm just guiding, not teaching. Your current achievements are due to your father's arrangement. The people he puts next to you are both talented and virtuous." Xun Ying has no intention of taking more credit.Even if she is seeking truth from facts, she can still achieve her goal, and the extra things are useless, so why bother to be greedy.

"My sister is right to say that. But the guide is more important than the teacher. If I continue to persist in the past, I am afraid that my understanding of Confucianism is quite deep now. However, it is of no use. Maybe it will make my father The emperor dislikes it." Liu Shi is now considered a young man.

He could see that although his father showed too obvious rejection of Confucianism, he couldn't say he liked it.Legalism, his favorite, has very little intertwining with Confucianism.It is inevitable that learning Legalism can please him, and Confucianism is at best only lukewarm.

Xun Ying didn't refute this time, and it was the same in her opinion, a correct direction is very important.

"My sister has helped me so much for so many years. I have never helped my sister with anything. If you have anything I can help, just ask." Liu Shi made a very generous promise. If it was yesterday, he would never have done so. explain.Today, he spoke very firmly.

Yesterday, he was just a prince.Although his father Liu Xun seemed to care a little bit about him.But he can't see his father many times a year, and the relationship is indeed not shallow because of the blood connection, but it is not close enough.It would be somewhat difficult for him to fulfill the promise of a prince.

Now he is the prince.His father has only one son up to now, so he has a great possibility of becoming emperor.A prince's promise already has a certain weight. If his sister is unwilling to speak up now, he can wait until his own status to enter another one.

Although Liu Shi was young at this time, he already had great ambitions.This is also the result of Liu Xun's education for so many years. Through Liu Xun's education, Liu Xun is no longer the "Liu Xun" who likes Confucianism, has weak, indecisive records in history.

"Is this true?!" Xun Ying asked.

Liu Shi thought she would refuse, at least temporarily.But I didn't expect that she would ask, and even answered much faster than before.Vaguely, it can make people feel a little urgent.

However, Liu Xun was very happy to be able to help her.Even if it is making friends, it is impossible for only one person to pay, so it is destined to not last long.There are gains and losses between two people, so that the connection between the two can be deepened.

"Of course it's true! Sister, I'm the prince now, so I have to keep my word!" Liu Xi nodded affirmatively. Although he didn't know if the people on the tree could see it, his expression was full of words sincere. "If my sister has anything she wants to do, just say it. As long as I can do it, I will try my best to do it."

Liu Shi was even thinking that if he couldn't fulfill her request, he could ask his father, believing that there was nothing in this world that his father couldn't do.The first time she made a request to him, he must do it and do it well.

"It's a very simple matter, for the crown prince, it's just a matter of effort." Xun Ying's tone was a little softer, with a little coaxing. "Is the prince willing to do it?!"

"Of course." Liu Shi believed her so much that he gave a positive answer without even asking anything.

"Catch it." Xun Ying stretched out her hand and threw down a dark brown pill. She watched Liu Xi catch it with both hands, studying the drug that seemed to have no effect in the night. "Just eat it. Even if you're doing me a favor."

Liu Shi hesitated for a moment, he knew that his mother was poisoned to death, and Liu Xun did not hide it from him.However, Liu Xun didn't tell him the murderer because he was too young.

Because of his mother, the food around him is very cautious, as long as it is something he wants to eat, it must be tested for poison.Obviously no one can test the poison for him now, he hesitated habitually.

"I believe my sister won't harm me." After Liu Xide said this, he ate the pill very simply and neatly.

He had known her for so many years, she had too many opportunities to kill him quietly.But she never did anything bad to him, and even tried her best to guide him.If you really want to harm him, you don't need to spend so much energy.

Moreover, she chose the medicine method.The imperial physician in the palace is not just for display, if he is poisoned, he will definitely find out.When killing people, it is obvious that they can be silent, but they chose to keep their own handles, which is really impossible.

Regardless of emotion or reason, he believed that she would not attack him.

"Now that you are the prince, you are still so careless. No matter who gave the medicine, don't let your guard down!" Xun Ying's voice was more serious than usual.

"Well, I remember." Liu Shi also responded simply.If someone else gave him the medicine, he would naturally be more careful.But she was no one else, and to him, she was even more trustworthy than his father.

"How do you feel?" Xun Ying was still leaning against the tree, she looked down at the people under the tree.

Liu Xun was a little confused at this moment, seeing that the figure on the tree was split into two.He couldn't help but looked at the sky and asked a question. "Sister, is it time to rest? I'm already a little sleepy."

One moment he didn't feel anything, but the next moment he felt that he could sleep through the night.It's not the first time he feels this way, usually when he has insomnia, or when he doesn't want to fall asleep on time.This is how he feels when she forces him to sleep.

"No, it's still early." After Xun Ying finished speaking, she jumped down from the tree.

Liu Xun endured his drowsiness, trying to see her face clearly.

"The crown prince really wants to know my identity?" Xun Ying said standing in front of Liu Xi.

Her clothes at this time are somewhat similar to when she went on missions in the last days.He was dressed in black with a one-piece hood.Putting the hood on her head can hide most of her face.In this era, with a breathable gauze on the face, even familiar people may not be able to recognize who she is.

Xun Ying took off the gauze on her face with one hand, and lifted the hood.Huo Chengjun's appearance is so delicate that it can make people of any age lose their minds.There is no age limit for appreciating virtue.

Liu Xun could see that the person in front of him was an extremely beautiful woman, which fit his image of a 'sister' very well.However, when he wanted to look again, his eyes were blurred.No matter how hard he gritted his teeth and insisted, he really couldn't see clearly. "elder sister?!"

"His Royal Highness, let me teach you one last thing. Don't let your guard down on the medicine in anyone's hands, and don't trust anyone." Xun Ying stretched out her hand to hug the seven-year-old child, "I am Huo Chengjun, your father's current queen. "

"..." Liu Xi's eyes widened, and there was the anger of being deceived in the eyes, as well as the obvious consternation and panic.

Huo Chengjun? !He is no stranger to this name, this is a woman who occupies his mother's identity, and is also a very dangerous person to him.Father even avoided the two getting along for his safety.In the past four years, he has never seen the new queen.

Unexpectedly, he spent four years with her in this way, and even trusted her!The first time she appeared, it seemed that it was not long after Huo Chengjun entered the palace...

Before Liu Xi had time to think about it, he lost consciousness in the complicated emotions, and the expression on his face was frozen since then.

Xun Ying put Liu Xi on the bed, and she ran her fingers across his face, seeing that the originally fair face had an abnormal blush, which made Liu Xi's face look more terrifying and abnormal.

"It's really a nice expression."

All the layouts are in place, and she is waiting for the big show to start.