Looking at the prince's somewhat fragile expression, he thought that today was indeed the prince's first day as heir apparent, and someone with sinister intentions was actually harming him like this.
The emperor was very angry.
At this moment, the queen also looked as fragile as after recovering from an illness. She seemed to have no energy to argue, and just said: "Your Majesty, I am your first wife...I have been self-disciplined and polite for all these years, how have I treated you?
You know very well in your heart that there are traitors who want to use this name to slander and frame me... I don’t want to live anymore!"
After she finished speaking, she cried hard. The emperor was not without guilt, especially since he had really doubted it just now, so he hurriedly said, "Queen, you are my queen, how could I doubt you? Your body
Just in time, stop crying, it’s important to take good care of yourself..."
The queen wiped her tears, stood up, and knelt in the main hall.
This was the first time in many years that the queen knelt down to the emperor. The emperor quickly got up and helped her, "Queen, what are you doing!"
The prince also lost his voice and said: "Mother!"
But the queen insisted on kneeling and looked at the emperor firmly with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, how can I just die? But today this conspiracy can be against the concubine, it can be against the prince, and it can be against you in the future."
! Don’t you want peace in the harem? Don’t you want the prince to be well? Your Majesty, you and the prince are both dependent on the prosperity of Tianqi. If anything goes wrong with you or the prince, the country will be shaken! It’s the foundation of the country, Your Majesty!"
The queen burst into tears and spoke every word of her words to the emperor, which made her emotional. She immediately said: "Queen, don't worry, I will get to the bottom of it now and give you and the prince justice! Give everyone in the world justice!"
After hearing this, the expressions of Eunuch Xie and Concubine Jing changed.
The queen slowly stopped crying and sat back down.
The emperor frowned and thought deeply about what had happened before, and suddenly remembered that the cup of tea was not prepared by Eunuch Xie? Moreover, he prepared it on his own initiative... The emperor suddenly felt a chill running down his spine and glanced at Eunuch Xie, "Eunuch Xie,
Did you prepare the tea?"
Seeing that the emperor really wanted to pursue the case, Eunuch Xie had already prepared a draft and hurriedly knelt down, "Back to the emperor, at that time, I wanted to calm you and the crown prince's panic. I didn't think so much, so I asked my young father-in-law to prepare some tea...
…As for whether there is anything wrong with the tea, I really don’t know, Your Majesty!”
The emperor frowned and chose to believe Eunuch Xie's words. After all, Eunuch Xie was very loyal to him and there was no need to deceive him. Besides, the cup of tea had been smashed and there was no proof.
"Then call the little father-in-law up." The prince said reluctantly, "Father, what if it was the little father-in-law who did the trick? Ask him to come and ask, and it will become clear soon."
The emperor nodded; "Thank you, father-in-law, and bring me here!"
Xie Eunuch kowtowed: "Yes, Your Majesty." He turned around to call someone, but he was already ready to send one of his loyal little father-in-laws out to carry the bag.
Anyway, what happened today was that he made a bad move and was defeated by the prince and others. There will always be a chance to win back the game in the future.
In the Xuanzheng Hall, the emperor was still comforting the queen, but the queen suddenly talked about something frankly, "It's strange to say that Eunuch Xie suddenly came to ask me a few days ago about wooden signs or not..."
The emperor was worried about the wooden plaque. He wondered if it was a token of love between the queen and Shi Jingshan many years ago. Otherwise, there would be no reason for the queen to carry such a worthless thing with her.
At this moment, hearing the Queen's initiative to mention it, the Emperor seemed to guide him unintentionally: "Oh? I don't know what wooden signs are or are not wooden signs. Can the Queen tell me?"
The queen sneered in her heart, the emperor obviously knew everything, but he was here to strengthen his tail.
But he said: "I don't know much about it, but one day I went to the Yangxin Palace and met Mr. Shi Kangning. Logically speaking, Mr. Shi came to the palace to teach Changle, so the road was not easy.
Concubine Chen felt strange when she met him... Concubine Jing said that's right?"
Concubine Jing was named. She originally knew that the wooden plank plan was just a part of today's plan. Now that Eunuch Xie was almost defeated by someone, Concubine Jing was a little worried at first, but now she had to force a smile: "Sister
What are you talking about? My sister can’t understand..."
The queen looked at her strangely, "Why don't Concubine Jing understand? Why are you so nervous? I just want to ask you, Changle was taught by Mr. Shi in the palace, how could Mr. Shi still go on that path? You are Changle's biological mother.
, I think it’s very clear where Changle is studying, right?”
After hearing what the queen said, the emperor glanced at Concubine Jing without any trace and found that Concubine Jing was indeed a little nervous.
He narrowed his eyes suspiciously and said on behalf of Concubine Jing: "I know about Changle. Changle was taught by Mr. Shi in her own palace. Logically speaking, Mr. Shi should not appear on that palace road."
They are all old people in the palace, so they are naturally very familiar with the roads in the palace.
Concubine Jing also pretended not to know, and just shook her head: "Maybe Mr. Shi just entered the palace and didn't know the way, so he took a sidetracked path?"
The queen smiled and said, "Really? Why did I see that there was a palace man guiding Mr. Shi that day? Maybe that palace man was also a newcomer to Changle Palace and didn't know the way."
Where do so many people in the palace come from who don’t know their way around?
The people in Changle Palace were actually the people sent by Concubine Jing.
The people sent by Concubine Jing's palace deliberately led Mr. Shi to "encounter" the queen on the palace road. Later, the wooden sign incident occurred. It happened that Eunuch Xie handed it to the emperor. The emperor never thought about it from beginning to end.
The shadow of Concubine Jing is still there.
These few words from the queen made the emperor's heart tremble. He just felt that there were beasts and monsters around him, and no one was trustworthy.
Concubine Jing's expression changed even more, and she said anxiously: "Sister, be careful! How do I know who was there that day and what happened?"
The queen gave her a cold look and said, "Really? It's possible...is that right, Your Majesty?"
The empress's warm hand covered the back of the emperor's hand. In contrast, Concubine Jing's eager denial attitude made the emperor even more suspicious.
As soon as one suspects someone, many details that once seemed strange may be connected.
For example, Concubine Jing suddenly said that Changle did not want to go to Imperial College and wanted to take classes in the palace. The person she invited happened to be Shi Kangning, Shi Jingshan's father. And the people in Concubine Jing's palace brought Shi Kangning to "accidentally" meet the queen. This part was not revealed by the emperor.
What I can hear from Xie Xing’s mouth...
What's even more amazing is that the people under Eunuch Xie were able to "accidentally encounter" the queen that day. The three parties "accidentally met" on a narrow palace road. It would be unreasonable to say that there was no pusher behind her...
And, more importantly, the final "evidence" that aroused the emperor's suspicion was handed over by Eunuch Xie himself.
That's why the emperor chose to believe what Eunuch Xie said without scrutinizing it out of his trust in Eunuch Xie, and then believed that the wooden sign really fell from the queen's body. With Shi Kangning present that day, his suspicions naturally increased.
Many profound meanings.
But what if, from the beginning, it was Eunuch Xie who was organizing the game and lying?
Are the results still the same?
Today all things came to mind again. Princess Xie took the initiative to make tea, and the young father-in-law handed over tea leaves that seemed to be problematic, causing him to almost wrongly accuse the queen and the prince...