V2.Chapter 113

Soon Yu Wan found that she didn't have time to worry about her second brother's mood, because Uncle Wan brought back a big news - the marriage of the Xiongnu county master was settled, and his fiancé was the fifth prince.

It's not too surprising. There are only three princes of the right age. The biological mothers of the second prince and the fourth prince are both high-ranking concubines. No matter how you look at it, he is the most suitable candidate for the ambition to win the heirloom.

In order to express the importance of this reconciliation, the emperor named the fifth prince as King Cheng. The fifth prince was the first of the brothers, but he was not happy because he was going to marry a fierce Xiongnu woman.

The wedding date is set for next month, and Yu Wan, the royal bride, will attend the wedding banquet that day, which means that she has a lot of rules to learn, no less intense than her second brother entering the Imperial College.

And this news has not yet been digested, and the next morning, there was an even more shocking thing in the palace - the Fengqi Palace had gone into the water.

In the middle of the night, the fire broke out, and all the palace people rested. When they found out, the fire had spread to the queen's bedroom, the bedroom was burned down, the queen was also injured, and the huge Fengqi Palace was turned into ruins in the fire.

When Yu Wan heard about this from Uncle Wan, she was standing among the flowers in the front yard choosing flowers. She wanted the kitchen to cook some rose gravy for the three little guys.

She stopped with the scissors and asked Uncle Wan, "Where is the queen now?"

Uncle Wan replied, "I live in Zhaoyang Palace temporarily."

Yu Wan's mind suddenly flashed through the conversation with Yan Jiuchao in the palace——

"She wants us to help her get out of Fengqi Palace."

"This is not difficult, you go and tell the queen that within three days, it will be as she wishes."

After a quick calculation, today happens to be the third day.

There is no such a coincidence in the world, the Fengqi Palace must be the handwriting of Yan Jiuchao, she had secretly guessed what method Yan Jiuchao would use, but did not expect such a simple and rude move, a fire burned Feng Feng. In the palace, the queen who "hasn't seen the sun for ten years" finally came out in a fair manner.

This method sounds simple, but it is not so easy to set such a big fire in the palace without knowing it.

"Your family's young master is really..." Yu Wan couldn't help laughing. She didn't know how to describe Yan Jiuchao, but it was undeniable that she was once again amazed by him.

This was just the beginning. Although Yan Jiuchao helped the queen out of Fengqi Palace, it was up to the queen to stay out.

I hope she won't let her and Yan Jiuchao down.

In the bedroom of Zhaoyang Palace, the medical girls filed out with blood and water. The emperor walked in and looked at the imperial doctor who was kneeling in front of the bed to change the medicine for the queen: "How is the queen?"

The imperial doctor turned around and gave a salute: "If you go back to your majesty, the maiden is seriously injured, and the minister does not dare to jump to conclusions for now."

The emperor frowned.

Eunuch Wang gave the imperial doctor a wink, and the imperial doctor picked up the medicine box and went out with Eunuch Wang, and the palace people also retired wisely, leaving only the emperor and the dying queen in the huge bedroom.

The emperor came to the bed and stood quietly for a while, the queen coughed, the emperor frowned, and reached out his hand, but before he touched the queen, he saw the queen wake up leisurely.

The queen opened her eyes weakly, looked at the man in the bright yellow dragon robe and said, "...Your Majesty?"

Her voice was hoarse and her lips were dry. She had already passed the age of pearls and jade, and she had grown old a little under the embarrassing injuries.

There is no shortage of women in the harem, but there is only one wife.

The emperor may not love the queen, but the queen is orthodox, which is unmatched by any concubine.

"How does the queen feel?" the emperor asked coldly.

The Empress said feebly, "Your Majesty is frightened, the concubine is fine."

The emperor frowned and said, "The envoy said that you had already escaped, so why did you rush back?"

The queen looked at the emperor affectionately, and raised her arm under the quilt with difficulty.

The emperor noticed her clenched fist and reached out his hand subconsciously. The queen placed a palm-sized purse in his hand.

This purse is a few years old, the edges and corners are hairy, the color has faded, the embroidery on the surface has become extremely smooth, and it can be seen that it is often touched by people.

The emperor opened his purse, which contained two bundles of hair tied together with red ropes.

His heart seemed to have been hit by something, and his thoughts instantly returned to the night when he and the queen got married many years ago. At that time, he was not even a prince, just a weak person who just came out of the cold palace and did not have a firm foundation in the court at all. The prince, she was the daughter of the imperial master, he climbed her high, he still remembered the way she cut a bunch of black hair on his head, she was frightened and asked herself if she had cut too much?

He saw her carefully put away their hair and put it into the purse, revealing a girly smile.

"Why do you bother..." The emperor's throat moved, "running back for this thing?"

The queen's tears flowed down the corners of her eyes, but the corners of her lips contained a smile: "I don't regret it, I have no regrets with your majesty's husband and wife, and I will die without regrets."

The emperor squeezed his purse tightly and took a deep breath: "Don't be disheartened, I will let the imperial doctor heal you."

The queen really didn't say any more dejected words, she just looked at the emperor and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty."

The emperor took the purse away.

The queen knew she had won the bet.

The emperor left the bedroom of Zhaoyang Palace on the front foot, and the affection on the queen's face on the back foot disappeared. In the light of the sky, she returned to her indifferent expression.

Just showing a little compassion is certainly not enough for the emperor to forgive the empress' sins, but just when the emperor asked people to thoroughly investigate the cause of Fengqi Palace's disappearance, some rumors spread in the palace privately.

"Have you heard? Liu Guiren was raising a baby in the bedroom back then, and it was Concubine Xian who asked her to call her to the Imperial Garden. If she didn't go to the Imperial Garden, she would not have eaten that plate of poisonous snacks. The prince may be able to survive."

"And other things?"

"The person who suffered originally should be Concubine Xu Xian, but Concubine Xu Xian took Liu Guiren as a scapegoat."

"She has such a vicious heart? If people want to harm her, she just needs to expose it. Why frame the innocent Liu Guiren?"

"Liu Guiren and the Queen got close. Back then, we all suspected that the Queen was pretending to be kind to Liu Guiren, but in fact he was looking for an opportunity to murder Liu Guiren's womb. Now it seems that we are all wrong."

That's right, they didn't have a chance to prove it. These gossips reached the emperor's ears, and the emperor let a few court ladies with broken mouths be dragged out and killed. Since then, no one in the palace dared to criticize this matter, but rumors Although it was suppressed, the seeds in the emperor's heart quietly sprouted.

"Yes, the poison belongs to the concubine, but the concubine is not the dragon child who wants to harm Liu Guiren! The concubine is the queen, and your majesty's child is also the child of the concubine. What if she stole her son to raise her? Who can say anything? Liu Guiren's fetus is no threat to the concubine, and the concubine has no reason to harm him!"

These are the original words of the queen back then. The emperor could not accept that his docile and virtuous wife had become a femme fatale, and he was also annoyed by her arrogance inside and outside of her words. No matter who she really wanted to harm, he did not want to forgive her.

It's not that the empress did not accuse Concubine Xu Xian, but Liu Guiren's personal maid testified that Liu Guiren went to the imperial garden by herself and had nothing to do with anyone. In this way, the emperor believed that the empress had poisoned Liu Guiren first and framed Xu Xianfei last.

"When did the rumors about Concubine Xu Xian and Liu Guiren spread?" the emperor asked.

"Two days before the fire." Eunuch Wang said.

"The arsonist has been found?"

"I found it, it's a dark guard, he said..."

"I didn't have time to say, I took poison and committed suicide."

If the dark guard bites Concubine Xu Xian, it will make the emperor suspicious, but he died without a word...

The emperor thought thoughtfully: "What do you think?"

"Slave dare not speak falsely." Eunuch Wang whispered.

"If you want to say it, you can say it!" The emperor said coldly.

"...Yes." Eunuch Wang pinched his cold sweat, "The servant thinks that if it is true, as the rumors say, the Queen's concubine really wanted to plot against the virtuous concubine, but Xu Xian saw through it first and pulled Liu Guiren to be a surrogate ghost, that virtuous concubine. The scheming is a little scary.”

The emperor narrowed his eyes: "So you mean that this time it wasn't the empress' hard plan, but Concubine Xian's handwriting? When Concubine Xian heard the rumors, she thought that Liu Guiren's affairs could not be concealed, and she was worried that the empress would regain her favor. Don't you set fire to the Queen without end?"

Eunuch Wang didn't say yes or no, only sighed slowly: "The queen has been out of favor for ten years, she can't let such a fire go."

"But what if someone puts it out for her?" the emperor said coldly.

Eunuch Wang frowned.

The emperor patted the table and said, "Call that stinky boy to me!"

Eunuch Wang went to the young master's mansion with a headache and invited this little ancestor to the imperial study.

"Young master, you...you can't make a day without causing trouble?"

Eunuch Wang was about to kneel down to Yan Jiuchao, and if he didn't put on the roof for a day, he was talking about him!

"Your Majesty is inside, you, you go in." Eunuch Wang sent the person to the door of the imperial study, and withdrew with a sigh.

Yan Jiuchao was sitting in a wheelchair, looking like a big old man.

The emperor was angry when he saw him, and even more when he remembered what he had done, he glanced at his wheelchair and said, "Are you pretending enough?!"

"No." Yan Jiuchao said.

The emperor picked up an inkstone and was about to greet Yan Jiuchao's forehead. Eunuch Wang ran in in shock: "You can't smash it! Your Majesty calm down!"

The emperor trembled with anger, threw the inkstone, and sat down: "Tell me! Did you set the fire in Fengqi Palace?!"

"Yes."

Admit it very simply.

The emperor who thought of a hundred ways to extract a confession: "..."

Eunuch Wang has no eyes and eyes, and he has no heart, he admits it without being punished?

The emperor suppressed his anger and said in a cold voice, "Why do you do this?"

Yan Jiuchao said nothing.

Emperor King Kong glared angrily: "Yan Jiuchao, I can give you a princess right now!"

"For the golden seal." Yan Jiuchao said with a compromising expression.

The emperor's anger was just a meal, and he frowned complicatedly: "You mean...the queen threatened you with a golden seal?"

Yan Jiuchao sighed: "Threats don't count, it's just a deal."

The emperor's teeth rattled: "In my harem, making deals with my women, Yan Jiuchao, you have the courage to admit it!"

Yan Jiuchao did not speak.

The emperor snorted coldly: "But you can't do anything if you don't admit it. You set such a big fire in my harem, do you really think I can't find out? I don't understand, for a woman, you are... You are serious. Do you care about him that much?"

"Has your majesty never cared about a person so much?" Yan Jiuchao asked rhetorically.

The emperor was questioned.

This may be the madness in the bones of their family. Back then, for King Yan...

The emperor closed his eyes, forcing himself not to recall the matter with the late emperor, he changed the topic, and his voice was haggard: "...how could the queen be such a person?"

A moment ago, he was moved by the fact that she snatched the two's wedding gift in the fire. Now that he learned that everything was a calculation, he had an indescribable response.

I thought that even if she did something wrong, she was at least sincere to him...

Now it seems that he is stupid.

"How will Uncle Huang punish me?"

"Of course I will punish you!"

He just didn't think about how to punish him. He was in a terrible mood. He asked Yan Jiuchao to go back to the young master's mansion first, and he could not step out of the mansion without his will.

On the way to send Yan Jiuchao out of the palace, Wang Gonggong said earnestly: "Young Master, why do you want to confess? Actually, Your Majesty can't find out about you. Old slave... Old slave will try to say good things for you."

Yan Jiuchao didn't answer him, but instead asked: "Eunuch Wang knows why His Majesty has not dealt with the queen for so many years, but has only kept the queen confined in Fengqi Palace?"

Eunuch Wang thought for a while: "Your Majesty is taking care of the relationship between husband and wife back then."

Yan Jiuchao nodded: "That's right, so Your Majesty can't be cruel to the Queen, nor has the heart to take advantage of the Queen, but from today onwards, His Majesty will have the heart."

His Majesty will still let the Queen return to her favor, not because of a broken mirror, but to check and balance Concubine Xu Xian.

For Yan Jiuchao, a favored queen and a chess queen, of course, the latter is easier to control.

Eunuch Wang, who will feel sorry, sighed coldly: "Young Master's heart is really hard."