Waking up with a baby

It is night, the moon and stars are scarce.

The palace man in charge of the lamp in the imperial study cut off the lantern flowers, and the dim yellow light flickered.Xue Wei reviewed the memorials for several hours, put down the brush, and pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly. Eunuch Chang, who was standing by, hurried over to fill up the tea. Xue Wei stared at the undulating tea leaves and asked gloomyly : "That good little brother of mine, what is he doing these days?"

"Report to Your Majesty." Eunuch Chang lowered his head and replied, "Your Highness seldom goes out, even if he does..."

Eunuch Chang said: "A few days ago, the prince was still competing with others in the Huajie and Liuxiang. No, your Majesty still remembers that Chen Shilang was ginsenged by someone, and His Majesty suppressed it? It was because of this incident."

"At the moment, he is self-aware, and he stays in the palace honestly." Xue Wei sneered, "The people in the cabinet have all day long asked me to reward him with a piece of land, and sent him away. I am not so stupid. If you let Xue Bai left the capital, wouldn't he let the tiger go back to the mountain?"

Eunuch Chang said flatteringly: "Your Majesty is naturally wise and powerful."

"Back then, all the ministers and His Majesty only looked up to Xue Bai, so what about now?"

"Your Majesty and the prince, one is the real dragon emperor, and the other is just a dragon making waves." Eunuch Chang grinds the grindstone for Xue Wei, "As long as the prince is in the capital, it is under your majesty's nose, what kind of storms can be caused?" What’s more, those people who should have been exonerated have already been exiled, and those who should leave their hometown... have also left cleanly.”

Eunuch Chang lowered his head and looked at the memorial handed over by the cabinet ministers, "Your Majesty really need not be bothered."

Xue Wei took a sip of tea, "That's true."

When Eunuch Chang heard the words, he smiled for no apparent reason.

After chatting a few more words, Xue Wei was about to write, and then reviewed the memorial, when someone from the palace came in and reported to him: "Your Majesty, please see King Jia."

"King Cong Jia?" Xue Wei frowned, then wrote on the memorial, "Let him wait first."

The palace man withdrew from the imperial study, and after a short while, he came in again, "...Your Majesty, the imperial concubine is also here."

Xue Wei immediately said: "Please come in."

The palace servant hesitated for a while, "From King Jia..."

Eunuch Chang winked and scolded with a smile: "You elm-headed one, of course you are invited in together."

The palace people left in a hurry, and the twigs outside the palace were concerned. She grabbed Youqing's hand, and first saw that the wrists under the young man's sleeves were wrapped in several layers of muslin, and there was also a thin line of cloth on the neck. Scratches, naturally distressed.Xiaozhi frowned, stroked his neck lightly, and asked softly, "Does it hurt?"

Youqing nodded vigorously, and retracted his hand, the doctor refused to bandage his neck, and in the end he just wrapped a few circles of muslin around Youqing's wrist, but it can still scare people!

He peeked at the young branch, and said contentedly, "It hurts so much, it hurts more than when Daddy hit me."

"What a photo of Zhuang Xu." Youzhi didn't think much, just stroked Youqing's hair, very annoyed, after all, Youqing had never suffered such a crime, let alone because of herself.She thought for a moment, then asked Xue Bai: "Did you bring him?"

Xue Bai gave an indifferent "Mmm".

Xiaozhi smiled, but there was no smile in her eyes, "Even Qingqing dares to move, she is really tired of work."

"This palace will fulfill her today."

The palace people invited a few people into the imperial study, Xue Wei asked with a smile: "What day is it today? My beloved concubine and the emperor's younger brother are all rushing together."

Xiaozhi knelt on the ground, "I implore Your Majesty to make decisions for my concubines."

Xue Wei hurried to help her, "Aifei, what's wrong?"

You Zhi avoided answering, but lowered her eyes and said: "Your Majesty, why don't you call Concubine Zhuang here, and I will tell you face to face."

"This……"

Xue Bai also said in a flat tone: "Brother Emperor, I also have something to ask Concubine Zhuang for advice."

The two of them came aggressively, Xue Wei's persuasion was fruitless, so he had to give Eunuch Chang a look, and Eunuch Chang took the order to leave the imperial study.Xue Wei lifted the twig again, and said softly: "It's cold on the ground, my concubine, get up quickly, I have already sent Eunuch Chang to call for someone... and the emperor and Qingqing, you all get up."

Only then did Xiao Zhi get up, but she turned around to talk to Xiao Qing.

When Eunuch Chang rushed to Jianjia Palace, Zhuang Xuzhao mistakenly thought that the summons was to let him go to bed, so he specially dressed up and changed into a sky blue shirt.Xue Sheng inserted a golden step shaker into Zhuang Xuzhao's bun, put some rouge on her, then looked at the person in the mirror, and said happily, "Your Majesty really still misses your empress."

Zhuang Xuzhao smiled, "Let's go."

Xuesheng nodded, and under Zhuang Xuzhao's gesture, he stuffed a jade ruyi into Eunuch Chang's hand, "Thank you Eunuch Chang for taking care of me."

Eunuch Chang smiled, but he didn't refuse, and directly collected it.

When Zhuang Xuzhao arrived at the imperial study room, the lights inside were brightly lit, she used her little finger to tuck a few strands of black hair behind her ears, and raised her hand to push open the door.Zhuang Xuzhao called softly: "Your Majesty..."

Young branch raised his hand and slapped him.

There was a "snap", the sound was loud and crisp.You Qing felt a little hurt when he saw it, he couldn't help but cover his face, he went to Xue Bai's side and asked him secretly: "Did I play too much?"

After the words were finished, Xiaozhi raised his hand and slapped it again.

"Sister is really angry." Youqing was taken aback, staring at his wrist, he said doubtfully: "...It looks like it's just a minor injury, why is sister so angry?"

Xue Bai said in a deep voice, "Because no one can hurt you."

Then he raised his eyes slightly, and the eyes that passed Zhuang Xuzhao's body were icy cold.

Zhuang Xuzhao's head was tilted to one side. After a little dazed, she stroked her face with trembling hands, and she wanted to cry, "Why is sister like this?"

"Why is that so?" Xiaozhi smiled and said, "I can fight if I want, why not?"

Zhuang Xuzhao bit his lip and didn't answer.As soon as she entered the door, she stunned Xiaozhi, and only had time to look around at this moment, when she caught a glimpse of the well-behaved Xiaoqing from the corner of her eye, the blood on Zhuang Xuzhao's face disappeared, she thought for a moment, and knelt down in front of Xiaozhi , Chuchu said pitifully: "Sister, this concubine doesn't know what I did wrong to be treated like this."

After finishing speaking, she looked at Xue Wei casually, and tears rolled down her cheeks, "This year, my sister has always been dissatisfied with this concubine, and this concubine really doesn't know what to do."

Seeing this, Xue Wei couldn't bear it. He took a step forward, grabbed the young branch and persuaded him: "Zhizhi, she messed with you, and you hit back too, so it's clear. She's still pregnant now, don't you?" If only..."

"Two Qing?"

Youzhi looked at Zhuang Xuzhao with a half-smile, "Since you claim that you don't know what you did wrong, then I would like to ask you why you bribed my servants and slandered me?"

Xue Wei frowned, "What?"

Xiaozhi didn't answer, but just ordered: "Bring some Cui and Mei Zhuang in."

The palace servants who were waiting outside pushed Mei Zhuang in. She was locked in the firewood room for a few days, so she was quite timid, her eyes were flickering, while Dian Cui calmly greeted her and said: "My servant has seen Your Majesty, the Prince and princess."

Dian Cui didn't say much, and told the whole story, "Before the servant girl came to Beijing with the empress, my mother made a sachet for the slave girl, so the slave girl cherished this sachet very much, and almost never left it. Take it off at night."

"Two nights before Yaohua Palace passed the water, the servant woke up leisurely in the night and saw Mei Zhuang holding the slave's sachet in her hand, but when the servant asked casually, she said that she liked the embroidery on the sachet, was it Yi Numaid didn't care too much, because she loved female workers in the past." Dian Cui paused, "Now that I think about it, she should have replaced the sachet that night."

After finishing speaking, Dian Cui respectfully presented the sachet, "Your Majesty summoned the imperial physician to identify it. This powder is ten-year red. It dissolves in water. It is colorless, odorless, undetectable, and will make people drowsy. So Empress fell asleep that day, and she didn't know the rest."

Youqing took a few glances at the sachet in Diancui's hand, turned her head and asked Xue Bai with wide eyes: "Didn't you say you kept it for me, why did you go back to sister?"

Xue Bai raised his eyebrows lightly, and after a while he replied with unchanged expression: "They imitated it."

You Qing asked with disbelief: "Really?"

Xue Bai nodded slightly, looking at Youqing with his dark pupils, and asked in a calm tone, "When did this king lie to you?"

I have lost my memory, how can I remember if he lied to me before?

You Qing opened his mouth, but he didn't dare to talk nonsense, he could only mutter quietly in his heart, and then he watched the play honestly, not even noticing the smile that flashed in Xue Bai's eyes.

Fooled again.

Xue Wei took the sachet from Dian Cui's hand, thinking silently, he has always boasted of pity for fragrance and jade, not to mention that now that Zhuang Xuzhao is pregnant with Liujia, even if it is true, it is naturally difficult to deal with.Xiao Zhi obviously knew this, she thought for a while, and asked Mei Zhuang softly: "Who ordered you to change Dian Cui's sachet?"

Mei Zhuang knocked her forehead on the ground, and said timidly, "Yes, it's Concubine Zhuang."

"And who ordered you to set the fire?"

"... Concubine Zhuang."

"Your Majesty, my concubine has been wronged." Zhuang Xuzhao immediately denied it, "Why are you a servant lying all the time? When did this Palace ever meet you? And why did you ever order you to set fire to Yaohua Palace?"

Mei Zhuang hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, you sent Xuesheng who was by your side to look for your servant that day, and it was you who handed over the ten-year red powder to the servant."

"you you……"

Zhuang Xuzhao's eyes were filled with tears, as if she had been wronged by the heavens, she shook her head and said, "Your Majesty, there are no concubines."

Xiaozhi turned her head and said with a smile: "Since you have never done this before, did Concubine Zhuang imply that Ben Gong taught her to speak like this?"

Zhuang Xuzhao lowered his head, "I dare not."

"Why don't you dare?"

"The concubine, the concubine really didn't instruct Mei Zhuang to set fire to Qiongyao Palace, nor did she ask her to replace the sachet." Xue Wei didn't say a word, Zhuang Xuzhao pretended to be pitiful and said, "Your Majesty accidentally drank it. Ten years red, fell into a coma, and Xiao Guizi also said that he just fell asleep and didn't know. If it was the concubine's fault, Xiao Guizi was taken from the west to the Yaohua Palace while he was in a coma , will definitely be seen by the guards on patrol, and the empress can ask them if they have ever seen the people around the slaves."

"Of course the imperial guards will be summoned." Xue Bai, who had never spoken before, raised his eyes and said in a calm tone: "My king's concubine was assassinated for no reason, so I would like to ask the deputy leader of the imperial guards. When did the princess offend him and his master."

Zhuang Xuzhao's eyelashes trembled.

what happened?

Chen Wenhan clearly assured her that even if the person sent to assassinate Youqing failed, they would never confess to the two of them, let alone implicate him.She was so confident before that she refused to admit it to death, it was just relying on this point, and she sent someone to move the little noble son from the residence to Yaohua Palace, and Chen Wenhan covered it up for herself, Zhuang Xuzhao couldn't help feeling a little panicked when he heard the words.

Xiaozhi smiled coldly, and said meaningfully: "It's really interesting. I just said some personal words to Concubine Zhuang, and later, my younger brother was taught a lesson."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Zhi turned to ask Xue Wei: "Your Majesty, do you think the concubine is aggressive?"

Xue Wei replied: "I know you feel uncomfortable."

"Your Majesty knows." You Zhi smiled and asked, "Does Your Majesty know why the concubine feels uncomfortable?"

Xue Wei was about to speak, but suddenly paused.

"In the past, as long as your majesty got plain-colored fabrics, he would order people to send them to Yaohua Palace and Jianjia Palace, but most of the rewards your majesty gave to concubines and concubines were jade." Xiaozhi said to himself: "Your Majesty often jokes that the ministers and concubines are Xian'e from the Guanghan Palace, and also say that the concubines' hearts can't be warmed up, so when they leave the Yaohua Palace, they will always drive to the Jianjia Palace."

"...Your Majesty, are you really in love with your concubine?"

"Of course I love you." Xue Wei hastily held Young Zhi's hand, and patiently explained to her: "Zhi Zhi, I just don't want to force you, and she, she is so similar to you, when I see her , you will remember, don’t think too much.”

Youzhi looked at Zhuang Xuzhao, poking her heart with every word, "So Your Majesty loves her because he loves her?"

Xue Wei held Xiaozhi's hand, "It's only natural."

You Zhi asked again: "If it was really her who framed the concubine or did something else, will His Majesty cover it up?"

Xue Wei hesitated for a moment, and assured her: "If it is really her, I will give you justice."

Zhuang Xuzhao shivered, a biting chill came from his limbs.

Hearing this, Xue Bai said calmly: "Since this is the case, surely the emperor will never shield the concubine who Zhuang concubine sent someone to assassinate her younger brother."

He didn't even lift his eyelids, his deep black pupils had no warmth, they were astonishingly cold, "Concubine Zhuang, I just want to ask you why you sent someone to assassinate Qingqing."

Youqing couldn't help muttering: "It must be because sister beat her, she couldn't beat her, so she came to beat me to vent her anger!"

After finishing speaking, You Qing put his hand into his purse, intending to eat a few melon seeds, but found nothing in his hand, he looked at his wrist, which took a long time to wrap in muslin, and then at the empty purse, his face swollen round of.

The porcelain has not been touched, and the melon seeds have not been cracked. This excitement is not easy to join in at all!

The author has something to say: Concubine Zhuang: When someone beats me, I beat Youqing.

You Qingqing: I will eat when someone slaps me in the face... Hey, hey, where are my melon seeds QAQ