"Your Majesty, Eunuch Wei brought Eunuch Qin over here, saying that the fourth prince told you to let the Empress deal with the poisoner."
This is, it happened that the prince and the queen were discussing about the poisoning of Lisha, and the maid came to report it, and the queen was really shocked. After looking at the prince who was also confused, "Bring it in!"
"Yes, empress!" The maid led the order and went out. After a while, Eunuch Wei came in with Eunuch Qin.
As soon as Eunuch Qin came in, he fell to his knees on the ground with a plop, "Your Majesty, please forgive me, Your Majesty, please forgive me!" He kept begging for mercy, and the Queen felt disgusted when he saw it. Glancing at Eunuch Wei dissatisfied, he snorted coldly.
Prince Duanmuche leaned on the backrest, looking at Eunuch Qin playfully.
"This old slave joins the empress, Your Highness the Crown Prince!" Eunuch Wei first knelt on the ground and saluted. He didn't get up until the queen said it. Arching his body respectfully, "Empress Empress, the emperor ordered the fourth prince and the old slave to investigate the poisoning of Princess Lisha, and there is already a clue!"
The queen didn't expect to say "Oh!? Who did it?"
"Going back to the Empress, it is this Eunuch Qin. However, Eunuch Qin was ordered by the Empress to poison Concubine Chen, so he didn't want to kill Princess Lisha by mistake."
As soon as he finished speaking, the empress burst into anger and yelled, "Bold, you actually framed me and said who ordered you!" The empress was a little unbelievable, but she didn't expect that the crime was placed on her own head .
"Your Majesty, you have to save me, I did what you told me to do!"
"Presumptuous, how can you slander my palace at will!" He raised his head, and said sharply to Eunuch Wei, "What's going on?"
"Back to your mother, the old slave found out that Eunuch Qin was on duty last night, and he took care of everything. Then he sent someone to ask, but unexpectedly, he said that he was instructed by your mother, so the fourth prince went to reply to the emperor. , let the old slave bring him over first!"
"Fourth brother, aren't you afraid that we will kill people to silence you?" The prince just asked, what does he mean by this fourth brother.
"The fourth prince said that if the empress is innocent, she will naturally not kill people to silence her. If the matter is done by the empress, there is no way to hide!"
The queen chuckled, it seemed that Duanmu Ding had expected this to happen a long time ago, and he really deserved the blood of two generations of emperors. "Since the fourth prince has already reported to the emperor, let's wait with this palace!" He sat next to the prince again, thinking for a while, "Go and call Concubine Chen, and tell me that this palace has something important to do! Oh, yes Oh, and there is also Prince Chen Rui, otherwise this palace is worried that Prince Chen Rui thinks that this palace will bully his mother and concubine!"
Naturally, this was not what Eunuch Wei said. The queen's personal eunuch bowed his head and said something before heading to Chenxi Palace.
"Eunuch Wei, do it, wait for the emperor and concubine Chen with me!"
"Come and give me a seat!" The eunuch with sharp eyesight and quick hands moved a chair and placed it beside Eunuch Wei.
"The old slave thanked the empress!" Eunuch Wei bent his body, smiled at the prince again, and sat on the chair, "Empress, this matter, this old slave does not behave like an empress!"
Back then, the queen was a maidservant in the general's Duanmu mansion, and she never wanted to have an affair with General Duanmu and became pregnant. General Duanmu's wife, the former Emperor Minyi, and now the birth mother of the fourth prince accepted her with a magnanimous heart.
Fortunately, the queen back then was still kind and repaying, and she was very cautious. Later, she rode horses on the battlefield with the emperor, experienced life and death together, and fought for the current Jokhang Kingdom, and then she was canonized as the queen.
All these years, I haven't seen her blushing because of jealousy with that concubine. So Eunuch Wei did not believe that the empress would do this.
"oh!"
The queen listened, closed her eyes, and smiled softly. "Why does Eunuch Wei believe that the Ai family did not do it at this time!"
"In the heart of this old slave, the empress has always been tolerant. Over the years, the emperor has accepted a few concubines every year, and some of them are well-loved, such as the good concubine. But I don't see the empress making things difficult for the concubine Liang. Not to mention Concubine Chen, who has been with her for twenty years and has the most indifferent disposition!"
The queen glanced at the prince, and said to Wei Gonggong, "Concubine Chen has always been aloof from the world. I really can't find any reason to harm her!" , How many twists and turns and bitterness have gone through.
Today, she has long since ceased to ask for a collection of thousands of favors. Only her only son can successfully climb the mountain to the throne, so that she can let go of the big rock in her heart. He glared fiercely at Eunuch Qin who was on the ground, wishing he could goug him to death.
Eunuch Qin saw the Queen's horrified eyes.?He shrank his head involuntarily, he wanted to justify himself, but this time he was frightened by the queen.
"Queen, my son thinks!" The prince was about to say something to the queen, paused, and glanced at Eunuch Wei who was looking at the two of them. "Hehe, Eunuch Wei has been busy all night, and he is always tired, why not go to the side hall to rest first!"
Eunuch Wei has been scrambling in the palace for many years, so he still has some eyesight. Slave leave!"
?Leaving with Eunuch Qin who was waiting to be released.
The prince waited until the two of them disappeared completely, then turned his head and faced the queen. And the queen was looking at the only son in this life with doubts and joy.
"Say it!"
"Mother, my son thinks that this matter is strange!"
Why didn't the fourth prince bring Eunuch Qin to see his father directly, but brought him here. Why do you have full confidence that you will definitely kill Eunuch Qin?
The empress nodded, "The empress thinks so too! But this time, that Lisha almost died. The fourth prince was so obvious in front of everyone yesterday that he obviously fell in love with her. Could it be that he was too angry to be so rude? "
The fourth prince, who is neither competitive nor strong, has always had a good impression in the Queen's mind.
"Queen, have you ever thought about whether the fourth brother is really indifferent to fame and wealth, and has no interest in the throne!"
The prince's words made the queen fall into deep thought. If this is the case, the prince's status is indeed a threat, but it is not so easy to replace the prince.
The queen is a little uncertain, after all, the fourth prince has never shown anything in the past ten years.
"Mother, think about it, the fourth brother has always been aloof from the world, and he is not interested in anything other than dancing and writing. Before this year, Princess Kening of Beining Kingdom was like a god, and he treated the fourth brother even more. It was infatuation. But the result was that the fourth brother said a word, and Princess Kening left sadly.
At that time, he also planned to marry Beining Kingdom to consolidate the crown prince. Who knew that Princess Kening fell in love with the fourth prince Duanmu Ding at first sight, and she would not marry unless he was the only one. I had no choice but to give up.
"Although Duan Lisha is not as noble as Princess Kening, Duan Jicheng is no weaker than Little Beining. Does the fourth prince really fall in love with Duan Lisha by doing this?"
He didn't believe it, maybe he didn't want to believe it.
The queen sighed, "Che'er, there are so many women in the world, there is not only one Duan Lisha!"
The queen's words really shocked the prince. He frowned deeply and looked at the queen mother, "Queen mother, son!" At this time, he didn't know what to say.
"Che'er, since Duan Lisha is determined to marry the Fourth Prince, even if you stop her, it will be of no avail. You still can't see Duan Lisha's character, she is beyond your control."
"Mother Queen!"
"Okay, if you really like her, you will guard your country with all your heart. If you become the emperor in the future, if you make an imperial edict, you may not have it!"
The prince clenched his fists unwillingly, his eyes were bloodshot, and he stared straight at a certain direction. It was as if there was a ferocious beast in that direction, confronting him. And he wants to show his strength and wants to fight, but there are many reasons, so he can't attack. It was a kind of helplessness and unwillingness to be forced to give up when one clearly had the ability.
"The problem before us now is how to convince the emperor that this matter has nothing to do with the empress mother. Although the emperor cannot convict me based on Eunuch Qin's words alone, there is no real evidence. But it will more or less affect the status of the palace in the emperor's heart What the empress is most afraid of is that the emperor will have a grudge against you because of this!" (Remember the website website: www.hlnovel.com