Chapter 187: Behind the Scenes

... Empress Dowager Yuan got up after taking a nap as usual, and was dressing up. The palace servants came in and reported the assassination of Concubine Zhen. The Empress Dowager was shocked when she heard that, and hurriedly asked: "How is Concubine Zhen?"

Knowing that Yun Fenghuang was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief, and said angrily, "What do the palace guards do?! The Xuanqing Palace is so important, how could there be assassins infiltrating it, and even brought in their blades?" !"

"The real concubine has already asked someone to take down the assassin and the guards on duty, and they are currently being interrogated." The palace servant hurriedly said, "Just now His Majesty received the news and went to Xuanqing Palace in person. The person who assists inquires about the ins and outs."

Since Concubine Zhen can still preside over the overall situation in person, it seems that there is nothing serious about it.

The queen mother thought so, and said to Zhan Liu: "You don't have to be busy here, and go to see Zhenfei's child on behalf of Ai's family."

Although she is definitely not as fond of Yunfenghuang as she is to Yuan Niangniang, after all, this concubine has always been attentive to her, and these days she can't do without such a person in the palace, so no matter how much Empress Dowager Yuan responds to Gong Xiangzhuo, she doesn't care. As for saying that he wished Yun Fenghuang had an accident at this moment.

Zhan Liu nodded slightly, put down the ivory comb in his hand, straightened the hem of his skirt, and was about to go out, when another palace official rushed over, saying that the emperor had come.

"You go first." The queen mother let the willow dip when she heard the words, "The Ai family talks to the emperor."

She guessed that the emperor had just invited her to watch the song and dance of the Double Ninth Banquet before the real concubine was assassinated, and came to express his concern.

However, after a while Chunjia came in, without condolences, she first hinted that she would dismiss the idler, then organized her words, and said: "Mother, the real concubine was assassinated just now, do you know?"

Empress Dowager Yuan felt that something was wrong, and said calmly: "I just found out that Ai's family is letting Zhanliu go over to have a look... What's going on? The palace ban is really outrageous! Places like Xuanqing Palace are actually called The assassin went in, is there a safe place in the huge harem?!"

"Queen mother, calm down, this matter has already been investigated." Chunjia said slowly, "It's just... just now that the Imperial City Division interrogated the members of the Jiaofang Division, and the dozens of confessions were sorted out, but the truth is... a bit tricky .”

"Troublesome?" Queen Mother Yuan pondered, "But..."

She pointed in the direction of Qiongfang Palace, implying the regent.

After all, the emperor cannot turn against the regent now.

"But I can't be sure." Chunjia said in a low voice, "When you get to the bottom of it, the Huzhu Palace is inseparable. Simply because the real concubine is clever, when the child arrived at the Xuanqing Palace, she offered to propose that this time The assassination was rather anticlimactic, and I'm afraid the ulterior motives are not drinking. Therefore, the child has now blocked the news and ordered the Imperial City Secretary not to leak the results of the interrogation. It's just that the matter is too big, and now the front court and the harem probably know about the assassination , always give an explanation.”

Empress Dowager Yuan took a deep breath: "This is absolutely impossible! It's not that the Ai family is helping Niangniang to speak up, but if Niangniang had such means, would she still be able to get to this point?"

Chunjia said: "I think so too, that's why I came to discuss with the queen mother after I got the confession: since the people behind the scenes dared to point the evidence to the Dendrobium Palace, they must have made arrangements in the Dendrobium Palace. The news of the assassination has already spread, and the child and she are not suitable to go to Huzhu Palace now, but it is necessary for the queen mother to go through it to deal with the aftermath."

"The Ai family will go there later." The Empress Dowager Yuan nodded, and said, "The Ai family has often visited in person in the past two days, so the news should not be leaked..."

After she said this, she hesitated for a while, remembering the scene where Chunjia came over a few days ago and the mother and child were crying, and she finally said it, "It's just the emperor's son, it's not that the Ai family deliberately picks on the real concubine. This matter... is really different from the real concubine. It doesn't matter?"

It really cannot be blamed for her being suspicious of Yun Fenghuang.

After all, what happened this time, it seems that this real concubine was unlucky, not to mention the assassination, and the mastermind behind the interrogation could not move.

But thinking about it the other way around, Yun Fenghuang was not in danger, and in fact he had nothing to lose, so he took the first step and hinted to the emperor that he would not believe the results of the interrogation-directly gave a favor to Aunt Yuan Niang and his nephew.

If it weren't for the empress dowager's self-awareness that Chunjia's life is better than her own, there's nothing wrong with it, and it's hard to say it now: the real concubine is so magnanimous at a young age, and she can take care of the overall situation when she escapes from an assassination. It's good for you, someone offered to ask you to take care of your niece, so that the mastermind behind the scenes would not be able to step down because of the evidence, but you turned around and suspected that the real concubine directed and acted herself?

"Mother, don't worry, this matter involves the reputation of Uncle Xingning's mansion, how can I be careless?" Chunjia's face remained unchanged, and said warmly, "So after receiving the news, my child immediately went to Huanhua Palace, and all the evidence, Hai'er personally watched the interrogation by the Imperial City Secretary. The queen mother also knew the background of the real concubine, and those confidantes she brought into the palace were not good enough to serve others. How could such torture methods be obtained? After Hai'er arrived, one The house is crying, and the people under her will only make people whip."

Empress Dowager Yuan pursed her lips: "So that's the case. It's because the Ai family is suspicious."

"Don't talk about the mother, it's the child. If you don't do it yourself, I'm afraid you will doubt the real concubine." Chunjia comforted, "After all, the real concubine's temperament is indeed not safe... But this time, the matter, The boy thinks that the queen mother's guess just now is not unreasonable."

That is to say, the emperor is also suspicious of the regent.

And there's a reason for this, "Uncle Wang suffered from being dumb during the previous Mid-Autumn Festival banquet. Right now, he also wants to embarrass us... The child doesn't want to argue with him now, and the mother will go to Huhu later. Zhu Gong has taken care of the follow-up, let's just pretend that this never happened."

The regent is a powerful official of the time-honored Chunjia Dynasty. Over the years, there have been vague rumors that Emperor Xiaozong wanted to make the emperor's younger brother, but it never stopped. It can be seen that no matter whether there is such a thing or not, the regent himself has such thoughts.

In this case, even if he cooperates with Chunjia out of helplessness, he must try his best to gain the upper hand.

Of course, Chunjia thought so too...

Before Chunjia took advantage of Yun Fenghuang's family affairs, he was arranged for him at the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, and it was justifiable to send people to the north;

Chunjia speculates that the assassination of Yun Fenghuang this time is most likely the regent's counterattack.

"Embarrassed?" But he was still calm, but the Empress Dowager Yuan showed a look of disgust, and said bitterly, "The assassins have all entered the deep palace! The knives have all been brought in! If these can enter the Xuanqing Palace, they can Entering the Spring Palace of Ai's family, and even the Palace of Taichu! This is simply treason!"

After exhaling, the Empress Dowager's tone calmed down a little, and she held Chunjia's hand, "Emperor, don't ignore this matter! Although Gong Xiangruo seems to be scrupulous about doing this, how do you know it's not to paralyze you and me? You must know that everything is dead. Everything is empty, after all, life is the most important thing!"

I advised Chunjia not to go to Yunfenghuang's place during this period of time, "The queen is sick now, and the affairs of the six palaces are all in the hands of the real concubine. The reason why her Xuanqing Palace comes in and out, there are many strangers, so I give it to you." Assassins take a chance. The emperor's status is precious, so let's go to other palaces for a few days, wait for the palace ban to be cleaned up, and then come to the real concubine. It is difficult to control the real concubine's heirs, and going too many is not good for the prosperity of the royal family."

Chunjia said softly: "Mother, don't worry, Concubine Zhen has been greatly frightened this time, and I am afraid she will have to rest for a few days. The child thought, if the Queen's side is better, it is better to let her come out to take care of things for a few days In this way, there will be no strangers in Xuanqing Palace."

Empress Dowager Yuan was a little startled when she heard the words, a little displeased that he was still thinking about Yun Fenghuang at this time: "My lord, if Gongxiang has a deep foundation in the palace, how can you be willful?"

"Mother, this is how my child thinks about it." Chun Jia patted the back of her hand to signal not to be impatient, and said slowly, "If you avoid the Xuanqing Palace because of this matter, doesn't the regent think that this will frighten the child? In the future, the court will definitely become more arrogant and domineering... My child can't show weakness at this time!"

"...That's true." After thinking about the current temple, the Queen Mother Yuan sighed, "But I have wronged my son, it's just that the security of the Xuanqing Palace can no longer be relaxed as before, it must be beaten!"

Chunjia said: "Don't worry, mother, the child has already been taken care of by Yan Yin. Besides, the real concubine is frightened this time, and she will not neglect her own safety." She also said with concern, "The mother has been worrying about the child for a long time. On the palace side, you need to pay more attention."

Empress Dowager Yuan said: "Ai's family is an old woman, if Gongxiang thinks about it, she won't like it, so she won't come to disturb Ai's family."

"What did the queen mother say?" Chunjia frowned, "If there is no queen mother, how can there be a child? Since the father and king left, the only family member of the child is the mother. This time, Gongxiang Ruoji chose the real concubine Let's start a demonstration, if it is the mother who disturbs the mother, the child will definitely not give up with him!"

The Empress Dowager Yuan felt good in her heart, but she yelled at him: "Prince, don't say that! Sister Qu and Kunze are both here, how can they not be your relatives? Besides, Concubine Zhen has been wronged this time, so the prince can't Saying this in front of her, the real concubine is young, and I'm afraid she will be sad when she hears it. And the Ai family spends their entire life doing nothing for the sake of it? Isn't it just for the emperor's wish? The Ai family knows the emperor's pure filial piety, but it's just that when things happen The overall situation is the most important thing. Otherwise, if the Ai family drags the emperor back, how can I not feel uncomfortable?"

With such a motherly kindness and filial piety, Chunjia stayed in the Spring Palace to accompany the Queen Mother to have dinner, and then sat down for a while before she offered to leave.

When he returned to Xuanqing Palace, the lights in Huanhua main hall were all extinguished, only the sleeping hall behind was lit.

Swinging back to greet the palace servants who wanted to go inside to tell Yun Fenghuang, Chunjia took off the cloak covered in autumn dew while walking in, and saw Yun Fenghuang with long hair loose, leaning on the soft couch under the west window Flipping through the book, Xie Hengyu and Qing Xu each held a handkerchief, knelt behind her, twisted her long hair, feeling a little embarrassed, and said, "Is my concubine awake?"

"I woke up before dinner, and His Majesty said he would stay with me, but he disappeared as soon as I woke up." Yun Fenghuang didn't save him face, and didn't even raise his head. He flipped through the book and laughed. Said, "If I didn't know that His Majesty is here to see the Empress Dowager, I would think that I have fallen out of favor! I just escaped from death, Your Majesty will go to someone else's palace!"

Chunjia couldn't laugh or cry and said, "Look at how jealous you are!"

He waved his hand to let Xie Hengyu and the others back down, took the handkerchief and went up to wring the black silk for her, Yun Fenghuang let him serve him, motionless, his eyes were glued to a book, very arrogant: "Your Majesty, carefully Some, don't ruin this long hair that I have raised since I was a child."

Her long hair was indeed well-growthed, black and moist, and as long as her knees, it could almost cover most of the couch when it fell loose.

Chunjia was wiping her carefully at first, but when she heard that she deliberately pulled it off, Yun Fenghuang was in pain, and suddenly turned around with a low cry, glaring at him: "Your Majesty!!!"

Hastily pulled out the strands of hair in his hand to check, as if he was afraid of being scratched by him.

"Look at your stingy appearance, how many secret hair-raising plasters are there in the palace, how can you be wronged?" Chunjia laughed at her, "This is the first time in my life to serve others like this, but you are putting on airs. "

Yun Fenghuang snorted: "I don't believe it, Your Majesty dare say, you have never served the Empress Dowager like this, and Yue Xiuyuan?"

Chunjia frowned, but soon returned to normal, and said with a smile: "My mother always loves me, why would I want to do this? As for Niang Niang, she has a quick temper and thinks that I have never served anyone well, and her hands and feet are not good. Don't let me do that either."

"That's right, Your Majesty has always been filial to the Empress Dowager, and there is a lot of favor to Yue Xiuyuan." Yun Fenghuang nodded in approval, "They don't care about ordering Your Majesty such one or two things."

Chunjia squinted at her when she heard the words, and said, "Why do you want to order me around?"

"Your Majesty also said that I am stingy." Hearing this, Yun Fenghuang finally put down the book in his hand, turned sideways, stretched out his hand to pinch his face, and said with a half-smile, "The concubine is only stingy because of His Majesty. However, if you speak in such a hurry, His Majesty will suspect that I want to use you... It seems that if I want to use you, I can use you?"

"If you can manipulate me, do you really want to manipulate me?" Chunjia casually grabbed her wrist, brought her to her lips and kissed her gently before letting go, and said leisurely, "My concubine just gave me a kiss." You looked panic-stricken, but looking at it now, it's back to normal?"

Yun Fenghuang sighed: "I can't help it. I just fell asleep when I was more stable. When I got up and looked... What else can I say? No matter what happens in the future, I should take care of myself. After all, Your Majesty does not My heart aches, no matter how weak and slender this concubine is, she has attracted His Majesty's disgust, right?"

She snorted coldly in her heart, this person vowed that he would not leave today, and went to the Empress Dowager Yuan's side to be a filial son, how could he have the face to doubt that her fright and fragility before was just a faux pas?