Jiao Luan

Chapter 449 Deng An
The door opened, and the light flooded in, as if suddenly changing the world.

The queen mother was shocked when she saw Cheng Wei in a mess, and went to look at the queen, and saw the queen lying quietly on the low couch, except that her temple hair was messier than before, there was no other difference, so she breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Cheng Wei: "Master Xuanwei, you are—"

Cheng Wei's heart beat like a drum, looking at the Queen Mother for a moment, he didn't know where to start.

Seeing the scratches on Cheng Wei's body, the Empress Dowager asked apologetically, "Did you get hurt by the Empress? I'm really sorry, the Empress sometimes has a lot of strength...Then today's treatment..."

Cheng Wei's face turned pale: "Queen Mother, please turn your screen away, I want to talk to you about the queen's situation alone."

After changing to another room where no one was disturbed, the queen mother said: "Master Xuanwei, do you want to clean up first? The Ai family sees that your shoulders are bleeding."

Cheng Wei didn't answer, but looked up at the Queen Mother, and asked straight to the point: "Queen Mother, did the Empress give birth to a little prince?"

The queen mother was stunned, then shook her head: "No. The queen gave birth to Daliang's first princess in the second year after she entered the palace. It's a pity that the little princess was weak and died before she was one year old, and she didn't even catch up with her teeth. I was sad about it for years and never got pregnant again before that happened."

"What happened after that?" Cheng Wei asked calmly.

The queen mother was taken aback for a moment, obviously she didn't understand what Cheng Wei meant when she asked this question.

Cheng Wei repeated the Queen's words truthfully.

The Queen Mother was completely stunned, and repeated in a murmur: "The Queen said, Hua Jieyu sent Deng An to take the little prince away, and only she and Qing'e are left in Guanju Palace, why can't they stop it?"

After a while, the queen mother suddenly came back to her senses, and grabbed Cheng Wei's wrist: "Master Xuanwei, did the queen really say that?"

Cheng Wei's wrist was already black and blue from the queen's grasp, and when she was grabbed again by the queen mother, he gasped in pain and said slowly: "Queen mother, I am the queen who repeats every word. Originally, you I used the talisman to resolve the empress' knot, but not only could it not be resolved, but the queen became even more insane. From this, it can be seen that the queen's real knot was not the emperor's misunderstanding. Or, at least not entirely, but something that made her more sad thing."

The queen mother let go, and gradually calmed down: "Yes, before the queen was imprisoned, Concubine Hua was only Jieyu. She said that only she and Qing'e were left in Guanju Palace, and that could only be after the confinement."

"Mother Qiao, go and bring Qing'e, the Ai family has something to ask her."

Mother Qiao answered yes at the door.

Cheng Wei felt that it was inappropriate to participate in these matters, and shouted: "The Empress Dowager—"

The queen mother forced a smile and said: "It's okay, anyway, you already know so much, and you don't care to stay and listen. This will help you treat the queen in the future."

Cheng Wei's mouth twitched slightly.

I always feel that the phrase "you know too much" is not a compliment!

Not long after, Qing'e came in and prostrated herself on the ground: "The Empress Dowager—"

"Qing'e, get up and answer."

"Yes." Qing'e stood up, raised her eyes and found Cheng Wei beside the Queen Mother, she couldn't help being stunned.

The queen mother noticed the clue and asked: "Why, do you know the girl next to Ai's house?"

Qing'e withdrew her gaze and quickly shook her head: "I don't know you."

"Qing'e, you have followed the queen for more than 20 years."

"Yes, when the servant girl was young, she made a mistake and was beaten by the female officer. The empress saw and rescued the servant girl, and she has followed the queen ever since."

"That being the case, you are loyal to the queen, right?"

When Qing'e heard this, she immediately knelt down: "The Empress Dowager knows that the servants are absolutely loyal to the empress."

The queen mother slapped the table and said sharply: "Since that's the case, the queen gave birth after being confined, why don't you try to tell the Ai family, so that people will kill the little grandson for no reason!"

Qing'e raised her head suddenly, looked at the Queen Mother with a face full of shock, and said in a voiceless voice: "Queen Mother, you, you know all about it?"

Only then did the queen mother completely believe that Cheng Wei's words were not just nonsense, she picked up the tea gu at hand and threw it at Qing'e: "Don't tell Aijia what happened back then!"

Qing'e prostrated herself on the ground and wept bitterly: "Queen Mother, it is the empress who forbids the servants to confide a word to anyone, and the empress can't do anything about it."

Qing'e fell into memories: "The empress was imprisoned in Guanju Palace back then, and finally realized that it was the concubine Hua Gui who loved her sisters who did it. The empress hated, resented, and even thought of dying, but later, the empress discovered that there was something wrong with her." She was pregnant. The empress was both happy and afraid at the time. She was happy because she had a child connected by blood, and she had the motivation to live hard even in the cold palace. What she was afraid of was that once the emperor or concubine Huagui knew the existence of the child , will definitely not allow this child to live in this world."

The empress dowager heard blue veins popping out of her forehead: "Your Majesty—"

She couldn't go on.

Back then, the emperor misunderstood that the empress had a private meeting with other men, and it was normal for the empress to worry that the emperor would treat the child in her belly as an evil seed and get rid of it.

Although she is the empress dowager, under the emperor's fury, in order to avoid causing the emperor's greater anger, she could only choose to deal with it coldly at that juncture, thinking about waiting for the emperor to calm down before making plans.

Unexpectedly, within a year, there was news that the Queen had gone crazy from Guanju Palace.

Qing'e cried: "The empress said, if the emperor doesn't believe her, then he will naturally suspect that the child in her womb is an evil species. Even if he asks you for help, once the emperor finds out, he will not be able to keep the child, and it will hurt you. Who knows that the empress will do everything possible to hide it, Not long after the little grandson was born, Concubine Hua knew about it. She sent Deng Anlai to take away the little grandson, and the empress has been delirious since then. Empress Dowager, the empress has suffered so much these years—”

"You mean, the empress gave birth to the little grandson in the cold palace?" The corners of the empress dowager's eyes were moist.

Qing'e nodded again and again: "It's the little emperor's grandson, that's right, the little emperor's grandson's umbilical cord was cut by the servants themselves."

"Then where did the little grandson go?" The queen mother murmured to herself, feeling her chest was suffocated and painful, and she was almost out of breath.

Deng An...

The queen mother read these two words in her heart, waved Qing'e back, and said to Cheng Wei: "Master Xuanwei, what happened today, the Ai family hopes that you will leave this door, just forget about it."

"Don't worry, Empress Dowager, I'm a Fu doctor, and I can only cure diseases and save people. Other things go in from one ear to the other and come out from the right, so I won't take it to heart."

The queen mother looked tired and sighed deeply.

The interrogation in the Compassion Ning Palace was like the wind blowing across the lake without a trace, and the palace was calm and peaceful.

Soon it was halfway through April, and the battle between Northern Qi and Xijiang was in full swing, and the battle became more and more tense.

On this day, Emperor Changqing came to the Changchun Palace and said to Concubine Hua: "This year, my mother is more lively than in previous years. I think it will be her [-]th birthday in more than a month, so it will not be as quiet as in previous years. How about this, the imperial concubine is in charge of the harem, I will leave this matter to you, and you have to finish this matter according to your mother's preferences."

Concubine Hua responded with a full mouth, and turned around and ordered Deng An to go to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.

(End of this chapter)