Song Yi

Chapter 263
These news made Chen Meiren even more uneasy, she was a little scared, she only hoped that this matter would pass soon, as long as she still had the emperor's favor, she would have everything.

But this time, luck seems to be leaving her.

That night, Song Shenzong finished his government affairs and went to Tianyan Palace.

Beauty Chen was lying on the couch, her long black hair draped over her shoulders like a waterfall, her fair cheeks, slightly wrinkled eyebrows, and her red lips were tightly closed, as if she had a lot of thoughts on her mind.

Song Shenzong hurried forward and hugged Chen Meiren in his arms distressedly, "Little thing, what's wrong with you?"

Chen Meiren was lying in Song Shenzong's arms, holding his hands tightly, and said weakly: "It's nothing, my concubine misses the emperor."

Song Shenzong's heart warmed, and among the many concubines, this beauty was the most coquettish: "Look at you, haven't you been here for a day? Is that how you miss me?" Chen Meiren has a straight nose.

Chen Meiren gently twisted her soft waist: "I just miss the emperor, and I have been thinking about it all night." Thinking of the grievances suffered by the empress dowager, I feel even more uncomfortable. I must not tell the emperor about such things. Because the empress dowager was the one who punished her. This country originally belonged to the empress dowager's family. The emperor never dared to do anything to the empress dowager. Talking about it would only make the emperor more troublesome. There is still no way. She would never do something to please her, she could only knock out her teeth and swallow it.Thinking of the grievance, the eye circles are red.

Thinking of this, Chen Meiren's tears were like broken pearls, and she cried weakly: "Your Majesty, these concubines cannot serve you, but it hurts me to think about you. Can you come and see me often? Concubine? Concubine often has nightmares, dreaming that concubine was captured by someone and flew far away, no matter how much you cry or howl, you can’t hold your hand, your majesty, woo woo woo..."

Song Shenzong wiped the tears on her cheeks with distress, and hugged her into his arms and coaxed her dearly: "Little thing, don't cry, I'm here, no villain can catch you, don't worry. These days I come to see you often, and if I am too busy, I will send someone to visit you."

"Really?" Chen Meiren looked up at Song Shenzong with tears in her eyes.

"Of course! You are not joking! I try to come to see you every day, but..." Song Shenzong frowned and sighed: "Oh, the reform has been very troublesome during this period, Sima Guang that old boy contacted a lot of important ministers in the court, found the law to advise me, and asked me to abolish the new law. This old boy has the backing of the empress dowager, and he really dares to make a fuss. I still have nothing to do with him for a while. Read him All my painstaking efforts were for the court, so I tolerated him, but there is a limit to my tolerance! Don't go too far, otherwise, I will not be a soft persimmon!"

Chen Meiren never asked about the emperor's political affairs, all she cared about was how to win the emperor's heart.Nestled in his arms, listened to him, but never interrupted.

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Early in the morning, Du Wenhao came out from Wuweitang. It was a good day, and he wanted to take a walk and walk around.

Walking along the street, he always felt that someone was following him. When he turned his head, he saw that there were people everywhere on the street, donkey carts, ox carts, and horse carts, mules, sedan chairs, people coming and going. No one was found to be deliberately following him.

After walking for a while, there were fewer people. Du Wenhao felt that there was still a pair of eyes staring behind him, so he simply stopped and looked back carefully.Finally, he found that those eyes came from a luxurious carriage following far away.

Who will it be?He didn't know, and felt a little uneasy. After thinking for a while, he raised his eyes and saw the "Cha Piao Xiang" teahouse in front of him, and suddenly had an idea in his heart, and strode in with his robes lifted.

The shopkeeper of this tea house is surnamed Cai, and he has a good relationship with Du Wenhao. The shopkeeper Cai has been suffering from rheumatism, and when it was severe, he could not walk on the ground. You don't need to use a cane, so you are naturally grateful to Du Wenhao.

"Hey, it's Mrs. Du, why don't you have time to sit here today?" Seeing Du Wenhao coming in, shopkeeper Cai rushed forward enthusiastically.

Du Wenhao smiled and said in a low voice: "I found that someone has been following me, but I just don't know who it is, so I didn't leave at all."

Shopkeeper Cai looked behind Du Wenhao in astonishment, but he didn't find anyone eye-catching, but it didn't look like he was joking. Smiling and saying loudly: "Master Du hasn't been to the shop for a long time, please go upstairs to the private room! I will make you a pot of good tea." After speaking, he took Du Wenhao upstairs calmly.

After passing the corner of the stairs, shopkeeper Cai pretended to bow his head to call the staff downstairs, and then quickly looked at the door. Finally, he saw a middle-aged man standing across the road, looking into the teahouse.Unknowingly nodded secretly.

After a while, shopkeeper Cai came down. He personally brought several plates of dried fruits and pastries, brewed a pot of tea, and went upstairs. After a while, shopkeeper Cai came down.

Finally, the middle-aged man who had been watching the door stepped forward and said, "Shopkeeper, is there a private room upstairs?"

Most of the people who come to the teahouse are old customers from Jinzuo, and most of the shopkeepers know Cai, but this person is a stranger, wearing a brand-new short shirt, the fold marks on the clothes are very obvious, his expression is calm, his eyes are sharp, which makes people feel a little heartbroken. Surprisingly, it was a scar at the corner of his mouth, the scar went down, and it looked like a disdainful feeling.

"No, just now a guest officer asked for the last private room." The boss bowed and said with a smile.

"Oh, what a coincidence, I'll just sit downstairs. Serve a good pot of tea!"

"Okay!" Shopkeeper Cai personally brewed a pot of good tea and brought over a small pile of fragrant fried beans.The man was sitting downstairs, looking upstairs from time to time, as if he was waiting for something.

After waiting for more than an hour, the middle-aged man couldn't wait any longer, so he lifted his robe and went upstairs, looking left and right with his head.Shopkeeper Cai stepped forward with Xiaoying and asked, "Guest officer? Are you... are you looking for someone?"

"Hmm! Mr. Du from Wuweitang who went upstairs earlier, where is the private seat?"

"Oh!" Shopkeeper Cai looked the scarred man up and down, "You are looking for Mr. Du, why didn't you tell me earlier, he has already left."

"Leaving? Impossible!" The man glanced at Shopkeeper Cai in surprise, turned his head to look at the stairs, and glanced around again: "You just went down the same corridor, right? I have been waiting below, and I didn't see Come down to him!"

"Hehe, there is a small ladder for shop assistants behind the private room on the second floor, and you can go down to the back kitchen. There is a back door in the back kitchen, and you can go out to the alley next to Dongtiao Street. Master Du is a frequent visitor to the small shop, and he knows this There was no way, so after sitting upstairs for a while, I went down the small ladder and left through the back door."

The middle-aged man stomped his feet anxiously: "Oh, this is a big deal! Do you know where Mr. Du went?"

"He didn't say where he went, and the old man didn't ask. He was sentenced by the Supreme Hospital, maybe he went to the Supreme Hospital, maybe he went back to Wuweitang, or he went to visit, who knows."

The middle-aged man rubbed his hands anxiously, turned around a few times, sighed again, took out a string of copper coins and threw them to the shopkeeper Cai, went downstairs, got into a luxury carriage across the street, and sped away .

After he went downstairs and left, the door of the private room on the second floor creaked open, Du Wenhao walked out with his hands behind his back, looked downstairs, frowned and said, "Why is he looking for me?"

Shopkeeper Cai said with a smile: "Yes, he looks fierce like that, and there is a scar on the corner of his mouth."

"I saw it through the crack of the door just now. This guy blocked me for an entire hour. Fortunately, there is nothing urgent today, otherwise something bad will happen."

"Hehe, yes, but this man looks fierce, but speaks quite politely. I can't see any evil intentions."

"I hope so!" Du Wenhao really didn't want to cause any more trouble, cupped his hands, and slowly went downstairs, returned to Wuweitang, and entered the palace in an official sedan chair.

Du Wenhao went straight to the Empress Dowager's bedroom.Tell Eunuch Jiao about this.

Eunuch Jiao was very surprised when he heard Du Wenhao say that someone was following him: "There is another thing? Could it be that someone sent by Chen Meiren wants to murder you? Have you seen his appearance clearly?"

"I can see clearly. He has a new face and a scar at the corner of his mouth. He was riding in a big carriage, which was very luxurious. He followed me all the time. I walked fast and he went fast, and I walked slowly. When I went to the teahouse, he stopped opposite. .”

"Oh? That's a bit wrong to say that. Think about it, if this person is trying to harm you, he should be more concealed. Why would he follow you in a carriage? And it's a luxurious carriage."

"Yeah, I'm wondering too, but why is this person following me?"

Eunuch Jiao smiled, took a sip of tea from his teacup, looked at the tea leaves floating in the tea bowl, and said, "The tree attracts the wind, Mrs. Du is now a big celebrity in front of the empress dowager and the emperor, many people want to tea for various purposes. I got acquainted with you. This person came in a luxurious carriage, he must be from a rich family. If he really needs you, he should show up again in the future. Or, how about our family sending some guards to follow you?"

"Don't! I have been a fifth-rank official since I was a child, and I am not qualified to have dental guards. If the supervisory censor knows, please refer to me. This kind of thing is not easy for the empress dowager to protect. It's not good to gossip."

"That's true."

"Don't worry, I have the soft hedgehog armor for self-defense bestowed by the Empress Dowager, so there shouldn't be any major problems."

"Lord Nadu, be careful."

"Okay, I'll go to pay my respects to the Empress Dowager."

"Okay, the Empress Dowager still talked about you before. Our family will inform you."

The Empress Dowager quickly summoned Du Wenhao.

Du Wenhao entered the room and saw the Empress Dowager lying comfortably on the couch.Hastily stepped forward and bowed to the ground: "My minister pays homage to the Empress Dowager Lafayette!"

"Okay, don't be too polite, just sit down." The Empress Dowager said lazily.

The maid brought the stool, and Du Wenhao sat down with his hips tilted.

The Empress Dowager said: "Just now the Empress sent someone to say that you asked her to stop taking the incense pills and the medicine you gave her to stop the bleeding, and she has already done so, but she was worried that she would suffer another metrorrhagia. "

"Don't worry, old ancestor, Weichen's deduction is absolutely correct. Take a step back and say, even if we made a mistake, let the empress continue to take Weichen's hemostatic medicine, there is nothing serious."

Mr. Jiao said: "No, this old boy is very stubborn, and he was stunned by us. The report said that there is no good meat on this old boy. If this continues, I'm afraid he will suffer. But punishment."

The Empress Dowager frowned and said, "A bunch of useless trash!"

Mr. Jiao laughed and said: "Don't worry, old ancestor, we have already found out that this old boy has a half-sister, and the old boy loves this sister the most. We have already sent someone to arrest his sister. Let's start here, and I'm sure we can pry his mouth open!"

Manager Jiao repeatedly agreed.

Du Wenhao frowned when he heard this, and wanted to say that you are too despicable, but the empress dowager had already said that she would try to pry this kid's mouth open at all costs.

The Empress Dowager waved her hand: "No, we don't have all the things we need, and it's not time to turn our faces."

Du Wenhao thought for a while, and said to the Empress Dowager: "Ancestor, this matter can't be delayed any longer. Otherwise, the emperor didn't know the truth, and thought we were bullying her, Beauty Chen. The emperor dared not treat the old ancestor. What do you do?" Well, but I'm afraid I'll take my anger out on us errand runners."

"This Ai family knows!" The Empress Dowager sat up casually, "It depends on your ability, and you should pry open the mouth of that surnamed Lai for the Ai family!"

Eunuch Jiao bowed and said, "Old Ancestor, don't worry, with the card of his sister, you will definitely be able to do it!"

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In the evening of the second day, Tianyan Palace.

Chen Meiren's personal maid cautiously reported: "Your Majesty, just now the Empress Dowager sent someone to ask how the medicine is effective. If it is effective, I want you to continue taking it. The Empress Dowager still has the medicine. I asked if it was bad." Someone brought it to you, or..."

But Xiaoxin was a personal maid, and she couldn't hide even if she wanted to. When she was at a loss, she saw a little eunuch hurriedly walking towards her.The little eunuch was sent by Chen Meiren to check on the situation outside the Empress Dowager's bedroom. Seeing him come back in a panic, she felt something was wrong, and hurried forward to ask: "What's the matter with the panic? What happened again?"

The little eunuch took a breath, and said: "The empress dowager, the empress, and Lord Du from the empress hospital brought the servants from the empress dowager's palace. They are coming fiercely. I'm afraid it's not a good omen. You should hurry up and give them to me." Madam, report it!"

"Me?" Xiaoxin shook her head in a panic, "I dare not! You can go."

The little eunuch stomped his feet anxiously: "Hurry up, what are you afraid of?"

"I, I just got scolded from my empress. My empress is upset now. She will drag anyone who disturbs her again to feed the dog! You are brave enough to report it."

The little eunuch was also trembling with fright. He also knew about Chen Meiren's temper. Both of them were afraid, but they didn't dare not report it. While they were shirking, they suddenly heard noisy footsteps behind them. It's all white.

At this moment, Chen Meiren's room was in a mess.

For four days, people from the Empress Dowager came to guard every day, and Beauty Chen did not dare to go out. Last night, when she heard that the Lord Long Live had gone to Concubine Zhu De, she seemed to be able to hear Concubine Zhu De's triumphant laughter piercing through She felt that she was about to collapse.

She smashed everything that could be smashed in the room, and if there was nothing to smash, she picked up the ones that were smashed on the ground and smashed them again, desperately venting her inner anger.However, smashing these things didn't seem to calm her anger.

The Queen Mother!

Chen Meiren's face paled immediately, she subconsciously turned around and ran to the inner room.

The door was kicked open with a bang, and he yelled, "Stop!"

Chen Meiren immediately froze there as if she had been immobilized.

A group of harem servants and thugs rushed over and stood on both sides, with their hands crossed, staring at her fiercely.

Chen Meiren turned her head slowly, and saw three people standing in the door, they were the empress dowager, the empress, and Du Wenhao, a lump of wood who didn't know what to do.Followed by Eunuch Jiao, the chief executive with a dark smile on his face.

Chen Meiren looked at those vicious thugs, she didn't know what to do, she saw Xiao Xin, her personal maid at the door, looking in, she suddenly had an idea, and walked out quickly, when she passed by her, she hurriedly said in a low voice : "Quick! Find the emperor quickly! Just say that I am going to die! Let the emperor save me! Quick!"

Xiaoxin nodded, quietly stepped aside, avoiding everyone's sight, and ran out the door.A sneer appeared on the corner of Eunuch Jiao's mouth. He had actually seen it, but he pretended not to see it. What he was waiting for was the emperor's arrival.

From a distance, Chen Meiren saw the Empress Dowager and the others sitting in a gazebo by the small lake in the garden, where she used to drink and play with the emperor by the lake.Thinking that this was her own territory, she felt somewhat at a loss, straightened her clothes, and walked over gracefully.

The Empress Dowager and the Empress sat there, looking at him coldly, while Du Wenhao and Eunuch Jiao stood on the left and right, also looking enigmatic.

Chen Meiren prayed in her heart, only hoping that the emperor would come to save her sooner.Try to delay the time before this to avoid immediate losses.

"Kneel down!" The Empress Dowager suddenly yelled, and Chen Meiren fell to her knees on the ground with her legs limp as if being electrocuted.

"How dare you pretend to be sick for the Ai family! The Ai family kindly sent someone to see you and told you to go to the Ai family's palace to talk, but you said you were sick! Hmph! If the emperor called you, I'm afraid Are you faster than Kuafu?!"

(End of this chapter)