Chapter 493: Could it be that I recognized the wrong person?
Li Chengzhi's thoughts changed rapidly, and he finally told the truth: "Your Majesty, it's clear! It wasn't until the third day of His Highness's assassination that I learned that Hu Baozong actually entered Beijing half a month earlier than I did?"
The emperor's eyes narrowed.
As long as he knows that Hu Baozong is in Beijing and has entered the palace several times, Li Chengzhi can naturally guess everything...
Yuan Ke said suspiciously: "Since you have guessed it, why haven't you reported it to the queen?"
Li Chengzhi's eyes bulged out: "Your Majesty, if Fanchen had said anything more, how could His Highness recover so quickly? I'm afraid it would have been like today..."
Just in the middle of speaking, Li Chengzhi suddenly paused: No wonder the Queen's illness was so severe this time. It turned out that she was not excited to see the Emperor, but angry, or even scared?
The emperor seemed to admit it and sighed: "I really didn't know that it would cause the queen's illness, otherwise I would not have said anything..."
Then he glared at Li Chengzhi, as if he was very dissatisfied.
He had previously thought that Li Chengzhi was trying to share the worries of the emperor, so he didn't dare to reveal anything in front of the queen. But he didn't want to, and it was just for the sake of the doctor?
Although the result was the same, the emperor always felt unhappy, as if Li Chengzhi had betrayed him.
Rebellious minister!
"Unfortunately, before I could finish speaking, the queen suffered from an emergency. To prevent her from being suspicious, I thought about it and simply let my uncle enter the palace so that I could be kind to her..."
The emperor paused for a moment and then said worriedly, "At that time, I will summon Wang Xian and Xu Jian. You must be careful and take good care of the queen!"
Li Chengzhi suddenly thought: So the emperor specially summoned him here to explain this?
He clearly concluded that as long as she met Gao Zhao, the queen would 90% get sick...
What would Gao Zhao say?
He was surprised in his heart. Seeing that Yuan Ke was about to leave, Li Chengzhi quickly responded: "I obey your order!"
Yuan Ke hummed absentmindedly.
It wasn't until the emperor walked away that Li Chengzhi realized with surprise: The emperor had not mentioned the relationship between the assassins and the Anding Hu family, and what roles did Hu Baozong and Hu Chonghua play in it?
If you plan to assassinate the queen, even if you don't get killed by the Yi clan, I'm afraid the whole family will be executed. But in the past few days, it seems that you haven't heard any movement in the palace?
It's not that Li Chengzhi has great supernatural powers and was able to get news during the palace confinement. It's that the Yuquan Palace where the Hu family lives is just behind the Zhaoyang Palace. The two places are less than thirty steps apart. If there is really any movement, it should have been heard.
Arrived.
Li Chengzhi always felt that the situation this time was not ordinary strange...
In less than three seconds, a group of imperial guards escorted Gao Zhao into Zhaoyang Palace.
Li Chengzhi felt deeply strange. He felt that there was no such a large formation when the emperor came at noon.
Suspicious, Gao Zhao arrived outside Zhaoyang Hall. When he saw Li Chengzhi standing at one side, Gao Zhao's eyes suddenly lit up. Even the sadness on his face seemed to fade a little.
He was worried about how he could meet Li Chengzhi. But he didn't expect that the emperor actually gave him this opportunity?
Seeing Wang Xian on the side again, Gao Zhao's eyes turned cold and he walked straight past.
Wang Xian had a wry smile on his face and opened his mouth, but it eventually turned into a long sigh.
Your Majesty is so wise. You know that I am on good terms with you, but why don’t you take precautions to prevent me from leaking secrets to you?
As for the restructuring that involves the national foundation and the importance of the country, even if I, Wang Shirong, have 10,000 heads, I would not dare to question or oppose His Majesty!
Gao Shouwen, you think highly of me too much...
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Zhaoyang Palace, side hall.
This was where the Queen was when she was assassinated. Five or six days after she moved out, she didn't want to move back.
The palace maids and female officials knelt on the floor in the palace, all of them silent, not even daring to express their feelings.
Only Gao Wenjun was standing in the gauze curtain. The queen lay upright on the couch like a corpse, motionless.
In the past, when I had just gotten sick and had taken the medicine, my heart would have been full of charm and desire, but now everything turned into anger.
Big tears kept rolling down from Gao Ying's eyes, and his silver teeth gritted loudly: "Yuan Xuanzhi (name of Yuan Ke), how can you be so cruel."
Gao Wenjun was shocked: "Your Highness, be silent!"
"Yuan Ke is going to kill me, why are you keeping silent?"
Gao Ying's face was full of resentment, and he said sternly, "Gao Sanniang, don't you know that the Gao family is about to be in disaster?"
It is precisely because disaster is imminent that we must be more cautious!
Gao Wenjun's face turned pale with fright, and he wished he could cover the queen's mouth: "Sister, shut up..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the lady outside the palace reporting: "Your Highness, Gao Sikong is asking to see you!"
Uncle is here?
As if he had grasped his backbone, Gao Ying suddenly sat up and said urgently: "Please!"
The palace has its own rules of etiquette, and even though Gao Zhao was the queen's uncle, his treatment was not much higher than that of Li Chengzhi. As soon as he entered the palace, a courtesy officer stopped him.
Two other female officials brought a desk and placed it just inside the palace gate, indicating to the queen that if it was inconvenient for Gao Sikong to enter, she could sit here and reply.
Before the case was set, I suddenly heard an angry voice: "I'm not dead yet, I'm still the queen...how dare you humiliate me like this, the Gao family...pull down the stick and die..."
"Your Highness!"
Gao Zhao angrily rebuked. But when he saw the queen's face full of tears and her pitiful appearance, he felt soft and advised in a gentle voice: "It is the duty of the courtesy officer, and it should be so. There is no way to belittle the minister. I hope
Your Highness, please calm down..."
Gao Wenjun also pulled her tightly and whispered in the queen's ear: "Sister, today is different from the past, be careful what you say..."
How come Gao Ying doesn't know the emperor's temperament after being married for so many years?
He looks gentle, but is actually cold and stern. When it comes to major matters of right and wrong, even blood relatives will never be soft-hearted when it is time to be ruthless.
Just like his younger brother Yuan Huai, because Yuan Ke suspected that he might be deceived into taking the throne because of his young age, the emperor found an excuse and imprisoned him in the palace for several years.
Gao Ying knew that if this commotion continued, the only way out for her would be the cold palace, but she just couldn't swallow this breath.
Yuan Ke, Yuan Ke, are you so cruel?
A surge of sadness surged into his heart, and Gao Ying actually cried.
Gao Wenjun quickly waved his hand, signaling the palace people to retreat. Seeing that the queen was dressed very neatly, the female official did not dare to say anything, so she bowed hastily and hurriedly retreated.
After everyone left, Gao Ying let out a sigh of sadness and sat down on the steps of the palace: "Uncle...are you afraid that you are here to see your niece for the last time?"
When the palace maid and the female officer retired, Gao Yingcai saw: There were actually guards standing outside the palace?
There are also two Huangmen, who are clearly the servants around His Majesty. Although they are eunuchs, they are highly trusted. And what is the purpose of these following Gao Zhao? How could Gao Ying not guess?
The Gao family is afraid that their family will be confiscated and exterminated...
Gao Zhao walked a few steps quickly and worked together with Gao Wenjun to help her up. He then gently advised: "Your Highness is not like this, nor has it reached this point. Your Highness, please be at ease..."
Not to this point?
Gao Ying suddenly felt a glimmer of hope in his heart and looked at Gao Zhao blankly.
Gao Zhao sighed, helped Gao Ying sit down, and said in a low voice: "Today morning, Situ Yuanyi presented a memorial, saying that the prayer of 'establishing a prince to kill his mother' is against human ethics and should be abolished. I thought that the court must
There was a lot of uproar and curses. But I didn’t expect that everyone from Yuan Yong on down actually supported the proposal? At that time, I knew that the assassination of His Highness must be related to this..."
This was because she repeatedly encouraged the emperor and vowed more than once that she would give birth to the prince for Yuan Ke. She finally got the emperor's promise, but she didn't expect that not only did she end up making a wedding dress for someone else, but she also became an enemy and tried to murder her.
How can you not even take revenge on yourself?
Hu's?
Gao Yinghen’s teeth were almost broken.
"After thinking about it carefully, I came up with a rough guess: Your Majesty should have traced the assassin and found out that Hu was pregnant. And it was because of the fetus in her belly that Hu dared to do such a heartbreaking thing... Therefore, Your Highness
Don’t resent Your Majesty anymore. The Emperor should have known about it after the fact..."
"What's the difference?"
Gao Ying cried, "If he cared about the relationship between husband and wife, and knew that it was the murderous hand of that cheap maid, why not only did he not make the decision for Gu, but instead protected Hu, and was so vicious that even his uncle was put under house arrest?"
Love between husband and wife?
Gao Zhao sneered silently.
For the emperor, for this country and the country, how luxurious are these four words?
If it were him, he might have done something even more amazing than Yuan Ke?
"It's also destiny!"
Gao Zhao sighed with regret, "I haven't heard how much His Majesty favors the Hu family, but to be able to have Lan Meng's sign (pregnancy), is it a blessing?"
Even though his heart was extremely desolate, Gao Ying finally couldn't hold it back and his pretty face turned red.
Gao Zhao's words clearly had a hidden meaning.
Gao Ying's reputation as a jealous person is by no means a false rumor: in addition to him as the queen, there are three wives, nine concubines, twenty-seventh wife, etc. in the harem.
These forty are all the wives of the emperor's matchmakers. In addition, there are also female officials at all levels, selected attendants, prostitutes, etc. As long as the emperor is willing, he can sleep with him at any time. If you add them all together, there are more than a thousand women in the harem?
There were so many women that the emperor stayed in the queen's palace for more than ten days in a month?
Gao Zhao's hidden intention is clearly: There are three thousand beauties in the harem, and Gao Ying enjoys the exclusive favor of the emperor, but it is not she who is pregnant, but Hu Chonghua, one of the nine concubines. Who can he rely on?
Gao Ying, however, had troubles that he couldn’t express.
In a year, he and the emperor spent more time together than the fingers on one hand could use up...
But how could she let her say it? Who would believe it if she said it?
Seeing that the queen was clenching her teeth and her face was turning red and white, it was obvious that she had something to hide. But Gao Zhao no longer wanted to ask.
He sighed sadly: "The matter has come to this, even if it is not satisfactory, we can only do it with difficulty! I hope that Your Highness will not show off his role, not be shy, and act in a low profile. In this way, Your Highness can maintain wealth for the rest of his life..."
Gao Zhaomeng paused, his face suddenly changed, and his voice was barely audible, "This is the only way to ensure that my entire family, the Gao family, will have a happy death!"
A lifetime of wealth and good fortune?
In an instant, Gao Ying's face turned as white as a piece of paper.
Yuan Ke, is it really possible to do it?
But what about me?
If I, Gao Ying, could hold my tail between my legs and behave like a human being, how could I possibly become the empress of the world and enjoy the wealth of the emperor?
"Hehehe..."
The queen laughed nervously, her eyes full of coldness, "Don't worry, uncle, I'll just ignore you!"
I hope you can really understand?
This incident happened so suddenly that even Gao Zhao was so shocked that even if he wanted to comfort Gao Ying, he couldn't do anything to persuade him.
Moreover, there were more important things to do, and Gao Zhao did not dare to delay.
After pondering for a moment, he advised the queen: "Your Highness is in poor health, so it is better to rest and not be too anxious. And since I still have ministers here, it does not necessarily mean that there will be no improvement..."
With that said, he called Gao Wenjun again: "Send someone to call Li Chengzhi and tell him that I want to ask him about the Queen's condition... Let him enter the palace with confidence, but the door of the palace must be opened wide, and the courtesy officer outside the palace, Huangmen, must be allowed to enter.
The guards and others saw where he was in the palace and what he was doing..."
Gao Wenjun accepted the promise and left, but Gao Ying was confused: "What does uncle mean by calling Li Chengzhi at this time?"
Gao Zhao said calmly: "I told him to take good care of the Queen. Only when Your Highness is well, can I do my business with peace of mind outside the palace..."
Is that so?
Gao Ying's heart was agitated, but she didn't know that Gao Zhao was perfunctory with her. After being coaxed by Gao Zhao for a few words, she entered the account worrying about gains and losses.
Gao Zhao secretly sighed, walked down the steps of the palace, knelt down and sat behind the tables that had just entered the palace door, and waited quietly.
How could he meet Li Chengzhi so quickly and directly?
This is a blessing.
Who would have thought that Gao Shouwen, uncharacteristically, disobeyed the emperor's orders. He was neither an emperor nor a queen, but Li Chengzhi, who was regarded as a capable minister and critic by His Majesty, and as a genius and all-rounder by the world.<
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Regardless of the emperor or the world, they would never have imagined that what they saw or even imagined was not even a tenth of what Li Chengzhi knew!
A man given by heaven?
God bless me Gao...
As soon as he reached the bottom of the steps, he saw Gao Zhao sitting behind the palace gate like a goalkeeper. I didn't know anything was wrong, but I really thought that Gao Zhao wanted to ask about Gao Ying's injury. Li Chengzhi first greeted the queen loudly, and then raised his eyebrows towards Gao Zhao.
The arch.
"Sit!" Gao Zhao pointed to a few cases and said sadly, "Who would have thought that you and I would be sitting across from each other and talking at this time and here?"
Not knowing what kind of medicine he was selling in the gourd, Li Chengzhi could only say politely: "It's a blessing to be a low-ranking official!"
The attitude is very respectful, but a little distant. It is far from being as close as the younger generation facing the venerable elders.
Gao Zhao actually regretted that Li Chengzhi had sent messages to Gao Zhan two and three times, saying that he wanted to visit him at his door, but he had rejected him again and again.
At that time, I was just annoyed that Li Chengzhi didn't understand etiquette. Did he have to come to the door in person because his father was dead or his mother was gone?
Now that I think about it, if we had already had a friendship, why would we be so afraid of difficulties now?
Even if I’m afraid of the difficulty, I can’t care less...
Gao Zhao took a deep breath and glanced left and right. He knew clearly that he had no six ears, but his voice was still very low: "For Sanniang's sake, please tell me the truth: I, Mr. Gao, am already a final general."
To?"
Are you kidding me? You come here to ask me about this kind of thing?
When he first heard it, he was still a little confused. After a moment's thought, Li Chengzhi's eyes suddenly popped out: Come again?
Even the emperor has stopped and no longer doubts about "God's wisdom and divine gift" and "God's gift of man", and you start again?
Not to mention Sanniang, it would be useless even if she were my own mother...
Li Chengzhi fluttered his eyes with an innocent expression on his face: "Sikong, my subordinate is Hou Xinglang Li Chengzhi!"
Does it mean you were dazzled and recognized the wrong person?