[Through the Book] The ancestor only wants to live a long life

The two separated after entering the palace.

Rong Enqing was led by the palace servants to the direction of the imperial study, waiting to be summoned by the Emperor Taihe after the court session. While Madam Zhou went directly to the Empress Dowager's bedroom.

Rong Enqing was taken to a side hall next to the imperial study to wait.

It was still the first month of the lunar calendar, and the weather was still cold. Sitting in the empty side hall, Rong Enqing felt chilled all over.

The palace is not like home. I can't expect a brazier, but at least I can have a cup of hot tea.

Just as Rong Enqing was muttering this silently, she saw a palace servant bring her a cup of hot tea and put a hand warmer in her arms.

"This was sent to the Madam by the order of the Empress Dowager." The palace maid put the things down and explained with a smile.

Rong Enqing sighed in his heart, a child with a mother is a treasure! Needless to say, it must have been arranged by the Queen Mother Zhou Xue.

Rong Enqing took out a small purse from his wide sleeve pocket and handed it to the young palace maid, saying with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work, eunuch. This is a small token of my appreciation. It's cold in winter, so you can use it to buy some charcoal."

The young palace maid did not refuse and readily stuffed the small purse into her sleeve. She bowed and thanked him, then turned and left the side hall.

The hot tea and hand warmer dispelled the chill that Rong Enqing had contracted as he walked in from the palace gate.

The waiting time was a little better.

I don’t know how long it took, but the hot tea was finished and the temperature in the hand warmer slowly dropped.

At this moment, the palace servant who had been there before hurried in and took away the teacup and hand warmer, and reminded quietly: "Madam, the emperor has left the court."

After saying that, he took his things and left.

About a quarter of an hour later, there was finally movement outside the door.

If nothing unexpected happens, Emperor Taihe should have returned to the Imperial Study after court session.

Sure enough, a few minutes later, a familiar person came to the side hall and asked her to go to the imperial study.

The person who came was none other than Liu Xin, the chief eunuch of Emperor Taihe.

"Madam, the emperor invites you." During this meeting, Liu Xin's face was calm, without a trace of smile. He also had no intention of exchanging a few polite words with Rong Enqing. He looked a little cold.

Rong Enqing knew that Liu Xin was the best at guessing Emperor Taihe's thoughts. His current look clearly showed that Emperor Taihe was in a bad mood. In other words, Emperor Taihe was very dissatisfied with her.

Rong Enqing felt a little nervous, but he still pretended to be calm and said with a smile, "Thank you, Eunuch Liu."

As he said this, he calmly handed a large purse to Liu Xin.

Every time before entering the palace, Rong Enqing would prepare a few purses. The small purses contained ten taels of silver, which he used to reward ordinary palace servants.

The big package contained a fifty-liang silver note, which was used to reward Liu Xin and the nanny in charge of the Empress Dowager.

Rong Enqing learned all these from TV novels. The more gifts, the less blame. Who doesn't like money?

Sure enough, Liu Xin did not refuse. He quickly took the purse and put it into his sleeve pocket.

He lowered his voice and reminded, "Your Majesty is not in a good mood, Madam, please be more careful when you speak."

"Thank you for your advice, eunuch." Although it was just nonsense, Rong Enqing still hurriedly thanked him.

After entering the imperial study, Rong Enqing immediately knelt, kowtowed, and greeted. His movements were smooth and his attitude was respectful. He did not dare to be careless at all.

Emperor Taihe, who was sitting behind the imperial desk, slowly raised his head, glanced at Rong Enqing, and said in a cold voice, "Get up."

It wasn't difficult.

Rong Enqing heaved a sigh of relief. The ground was cold and the bricks were hard. Even if she wore thick clothes, her knees would hurt if she knelt for too long. Fortunately, Emperor Taihe did not let her kneel all the time.

"Do you know why I asked you to enter the palace?" Emperor Taihe asked Rong Enqing straight to the point.

Rong Enqing was also straightforward and said, "Because I want to kill Yun Hao."

There was a flash of surprise in Emperor Taihe's eyes, "You are quite honest."

"In front of His Majesty, I dare not be dishonest." Rong Enqing responded cautiously.

Unexpectedly, the Emperor Taihe, who had been so amiable just now, suddenly slammed the imperial desk and angrily shouted, "Since you know why I asked you to enter the palace, how dare you plan to kill Yun Hao in advance last night?

"You don't take me seriously at all!"

"I dare not!" Rong Enqing was frightened and knelt down again with a plop. This time she knelt hard and her knees hurt.

As expected, nothing that happened around her could be hidden from Emperor Taihe. Emperor Taihe knew what happened last night early in the morning.

"Don't dare? What are you afraid of?" Emperor Taihe sneered, "You dare to disobey my will and kill Yun Hao! You also dare to conceal the treasure of the Marquis Mansion! You also dare to play with me in the palm of your hand! What else do you dare not do?"

Rong Enqing was horrified. She looked up at Emperor Taihe without any scruples and asked in confusion, "How dare a minister tease His Majesty?"

After saying this, she felt something was wrong and quickly explained, "Your Majesty, I understand clearly. I want to kill Yun Hao because I cannot bear to see him being such an ungrateful and shameless person who plotted to murder his wife!

"As for concealing the treasure, firstly, it's because we don't know whether the treasure is real or not, and secondly, I also want to relieve your majesty's worries and use the treasure to lure Yun Yi out. It's definitely not intentional to conceal it.

"Your Majesty, please understand."

"Heh, it seems that I have wronged you?" Emperor Taihe sneered and stared at Rong Enqing coldly.

Rong Enqing's back was soaked with sweat, and she quickly responded timidly: "I dare not."

"Don't dare? You surrendered to me on the one hand, and fought fiercely with the rebellious forces on the other hand. What? Do you want to have it both ways?" Emperor Taihe's eyes were cold, and his tone was even colder, "Or is it that your surrender was fake, and you wanted to use my people to pass on false information to me, mislead me, and thus escort the rebellious forces?"

When these words were spoken, Rong Enqing was so frightened that his soul left his body and he was shaking like a sieve.

It took a long while before she was able to suppress her fear and find her voice again, "Your Majesty, please understand that I am loyal to you and the Great Zhou, and I have no second thoughts!

"All I want is a long life and the safety of my descendants. I have absolutely no intention of treason!

"What's more, although I am ignorant, I know the truth that 'it is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in troubled times'.

"I really don't want to start another war, and I don't want the people of the world to fall into dire straits. Because, I and my children and grandchildren are also citizens of the Great Zhou!"

"What a great saying, 'It is better to be a dog in peacetime than a man in troubled times'!" Emperor Taihe's tone softened a little, raised his hand, and said, "Get up."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Rong Enqing wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and got up from the ground with difficulty.

"Rong, since you had already made up your mind to send Yun Hao to death last night, why did you change your mind at the last minute?"

Without waiting for Rong Enqing to stand firm, Emperor Taihe asked a question that made Rong Enqing's heart tremble.

Hearing this, she almost lost her balance and knelt down to Emperor Taihe again.