Waking up with a baby

"How could the queen mother not know that sons and ministers can overcome fathers and mothers and brothers, only fate is hard."

Xue Bai's expression was indifferent, his standing posture was as tall and straight as a pine, and his tone was so calm that he seemed to be just stating a fact, "Father the emperor died, mother and concubine were in an accident, the fourth brother fell and drowned, and the emperor's brother also—"

"Shut up!"

The Empress Dowager's face was ferocious, and she struggled involuntarily. The point of the knife in front of her cut through the flesh, and the scarlet blood oozed out bit by bit.

"The Empress Dowager!"

Nanny Zhang screamed, then turned her head to look at Xue Bai, and cursed at him: "When the first emperor passed away, the crown prince ascended the throne, and the empress dowager left you alive, I never thought that you would be so heartless and will repay your kindness with revenge! I knew it earlier, old slave We should persuade the empress dowager to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots, so as to avoid future troubles!"

"Grateful for revenge?"

Xue Bai asked with a half-smile: "Insulting my concubine mother, taking my throne, bullying my concubine...how can this king avenge his kindness?"

His face turned slightly cold, "It's not like I blame this king for not repaying grievances with kindness."

Xue Bai paused, his eyes fell on the long needle in Nanny Zhang's hand, and he asked slowly: "I just heard that Nanny Zhang wanted to pull out Qingqing's tongue and then sew up his mouth. Mom, is there anything wrong?"

Nanny Zhang raised her eyes to look into the bottom of his dark eyes, trembling, "Old slave, old slave..."

"Come here." Xue Bai didn't wait for her to finish speaking, raised his eyelids, and said coldly: "This king will not repay grievances with kindness, but he is extremely interested in retribution."

"Pull out her tongue and sew up her mouth."

"You, you..." Someone led the order to step forward, Zhang Nanny backed away in horror, her eyes widened, "The empress dowager, the empress dowager!"

"How dare you!"

The Empress Dowager pointed at Xue Bai tremblingly, she was a servant for more than ten years, she held back the surging blood, and asked in a hateful voice: "Your concubine is still pregnant with your seed, you have no scruples, don't you?" Are you not afraid that you will commit serious crimes in the future, give birth to a stillborn baby, or die together with your princess?"

"You just let him accompany your concubine mother to die together!"

Xue Bai raised his eyes, "Since the queen mother understands so well, I think I also know in my heart that the fourth brother died because of you."

The Queen Mother flickered, "What did you say?"

Xue Bai said slowly, "If it wasn't for the queen mother, how could the fourth younger brother follow the example of the ancients, digging ice to fetch fish by himself in the midwinter?"

"For the mourning family?" The Queen Mother supported her crumbling body with a crazy expression, "He is for Concubine Wei! He took the fish for your concubine mother who is suffering from the cold!"

"Isn't the queen mother forcing you to die?"

Xue Bai turned a blind eye to her collapse, "Father the emperor hasn't been to Fengyi Hall for a long time, and he has the idea of ​​abolishing the crown prince. The emperor's brother has never been able to afford it since then, but the fourth brother is talented and intelligent. The queen mother cries every day and is everywhere. Forcing him to come out on top, forcing her to curry favor with concubine mother, just so that imperial father can remember you a little bit."

"He has lived for 14 years, and he has never had a single day. He lives for himself."

Xue Bai's words pierced her heart, and the blood on the empress dowager faded away. She asked in a trembling voice: "If Concubine Wei hadn't caught the cold, how could my son have ended up like this?"

"In the end, he just wanted to see his father!"

Xue Bai glanced at her, seemingly sarcastically, "Is it the fourth brother who wants to see the emperor, or the queen mother who wants to see the emperor?"

"Shut up!"

"The Empress Dowager!"

Nanny Zhang wailed, she had been held tightly by someone, Nanny Zhang bit the person who pinched her cheeks hard, and spat out the flesh with a "pooh", she stared at the man with her eyes wide open. Youqing cursed: "You will suffer retribution! You will all suffer retribution, the bastard deserves to die, and you deserve to die too, you will all die in vain—"

"what!"

The shadow guard who put on an official uniform ripped off her tongue violently, and blood flowed profusely immediately. Nanny Zhang's heart-piercing screams were like a sleepy beast, and she could only utter indistinct syllables.

You Qing couldn't cover his eyes, so he whispered "Oops", Wu Liuliu's eyes subconsciously opened up, but at this moment, a long and thin hand stretched out to cover his eyes for him, Xue Bai pulled the bewildered boy into the room. In his arms, the other hand patted You Qing's back, and comforted him in a low voice: "It's all right."

"They curse people to death at every turn." When Youqing thought of the tongue that had been pulled out, he was still a little scared, so he threw himself into Xue Bai's arms and rubbed it a few times, "I just said that I gave birth to a son without an ass hole!"

Xue Bai paused, "Who taught you?"

Youqing was the fastest seller, "Shen Qihe!"

Xue Bai slapped him on the face a few times as if punishing, Xiaoqing wanted to raise his head, but Xue Bai pressed the back of his head and pressed him into his arms, not letting him look around, "It's not over yet."

Nanny Zhang had just put on the needle and thread, and now the shadow guards saved a lot of effort. One of them pulled Nanny Zhang's loose hair from the sideburns and forced her to look up, while the other pierced her lips with needle and thread, and the twine Soaked in fresh blood, dripping down, bloody and bloody, Mammy Zhang couldn't cry, her tongue and lips hurt unbearably, she struggled desperately.

The thread was pulled in the hands of the shadow guard, and when she moved, the hemp thread on the sewing was pulled even tighter, which made Zhang Nanny's pain unbearable. She pinched her thigh hard, and she didn't notice a few pieces of flesh. Her face was covered with blood, and her forehead was dripping with cold sweat.

After the shadow guard completely sewed her mouth shut, Nanny Zhang finally passed out.

"It's good to pay for it." The Queen Mother asked forcefully: "Do you want Aijia to kneel down with you and beg for mercy, then cut Aijia's face with a knife, and finally stab the heart with the knife, and there is still one breath left?" At that time, burn Aijia alive?"

"The queen mother wants to die, but it's a pity that the king doesn't want you to die."

Xue Bai lowered his eyes, the young man in his arms thought he didn't care about him, and was sneaking a sneaky glance at Zhang Nanny, but he was afraid when he saw it, and then buried his face in Xue Bai's arms again In the middle of the day, Xue Bai touched Youqing's hair, and said neither salty nor indifferent: "The king found a handful of ashes in front of the palace gate not long ago."

The Queen Mother was surprised.

"There is no place to bury the concubine mother after her death, and she is trampled on every day because she doesn't know people's hearts." Xue Bai looked straight at the queen mother with his dark eyes, but his expression was extremely cold, "Since the queen mother wants to die, I don't know what to do." The king wants you to live, and he wants you to suffer all kinds of torture, so that you can't live but can't die."

The queen mother was terrified, "What are you going to do to Ai's family?"

"doing what?"

Xue Bai looked at the young and clean face from the corner of his eyes, just smiled lowly, and did not answer, "After the death of the fourth brother, the queen mother thought about him day and night. If this is the case, the queen mother would rather live in the Evergreen Palace in the future."

Since Xue Rongdi's death, the Empress Dowager has not been to the Evergreen Palace, and her heart beats hard upon hearing this.

The Queen Mother hated Concubine Wei, and also hated Xue Bai. From the very beginning, she pushed Xue Rongdi's death onto Concubine Wei and Xue Bai, but she didn't dare to think about it. The Queen Mother spent more than ten years convincing herself that Xue Rongdi's death It has nothing to do with her, Xue Rongdi was killed by Concubine Wei and Xue Bai, and it took more than ten years to forget that she forced Xue Rongdi to curry favor with Concubine Wei.

Telling a lie a thousand times is enough to deceive herself. The Empress Dowager stared at her trembling hands and suddenly came back to her senses, "Don't go—the Ai family won't go to the Evergreen Palace!"

"Even if you ascend the throne and proclaim yourself emperor, the Ai family should also live in the Compassion Palace."

"The fourth brother should also miss the queen mother very much."

Xue Bai let go of You Qing, and walked towards the queen mother step by step, he said in a deep voice, "The queen mother has forgotten, what the fourth younger brother said to the queen mother before he died was—"

"Don't say it! Don't say it!"

The Empress Dowager's eyes were full of water, but Xue Bai turned a deaf ear to it, "He said that he is really useless."

"The fourth brother blamed himself for not being able to please his mother and concubine, and for failing to let his father and emperor come to the Hall of Fengyi to sit down, so he fulfilled his mother's wish." She had to face those past events, "Since the fourth brother said that since he is so useless, he would rather die, so that his father and emperor can come here to accompany his mother and queen."

"Even the king remembers it clearly, how can the queen mother forget it?"

The Empress Dowager's face was pale, her lips moved for a long time, but she couldn't utter any words, only tears fell.

She thought of Xue Rongdi, who was 14 years old. She was still a child, but she had endured it for a long time. It was all forced by her, all forced by her.Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager staggered on her feet, with a dejected look on her face. She soothed her heart and wept, and said in grief: "My Rongdi, my Rongdi—"

Xue Bai watched coldly, "Take her away."

He will beg for all the hardships and sins Dowager Wei has suffered.

She once cut his cheek with a knife, and he wanted to cut the Queen Mother's face. She knelt down for a long time, and he wanted to cut off the Queen Mother's legs. She was shot through the heart with an arrow and burned to death. The empress dowager lived and suffered, and her heart was weeping every day. After she died, she was trampled by others for more than ten years. He wanted the empress dowager to watch his severed limbs and feed them to the dogs.

Death, after all, is too cheap for her.

You Qing tilted his head and glanced at Xue Bai. Although Xue Bai had no expression on his face, he always felt that Xue Bai was scarier than the bloody Nanny Zhang at the moment. You Qing thought about it for a while, and approached Xue Bai He came to Bai's side, boldly stroked Xue Bai's hair, suddenly forgot his original intention, and asked suspiciously: "You don't sleep every day, why are you still not bald?"

"The monks in Guiyuan Temple don't sleep after chanting scriptures every night, so they are all bald!"

After finishing speaking, Youqing quickly covered her mouth, remembering that she had business to do, Bai Shengsheng touched Xue Bai's hair again, and imitated Xue Bai's way of comforting herself, and said to him crisply: "never mind."

When Xue Bai saw this, the coldness in the corners of his eyes and brows slowly melted away. He pinched the boy's soft face, and said "Mmm", "It's okay."

Youqing happily asked him: "Can you warm my bed tonight?"

Xue Bai nodded slightly, and You Qing suddenly covered his stomach, he pointed at his stomach coquettishly, and complained to Xue Bai: "Just now he kicked me again!"

"Does it hurt?"

Youqing wrinkled her nose, pretended to be wronged and said, "It hurts like hell."

Xue Bai smiled lightly, and Youqing took the opportunity to make a condition with him: "Tonight I will eat Xiaotiansu, braised lion head and steamed pork!"

"it is good."

As soon as Xue Bai agreed, Xiaoqing stopped pestering him and started eating Huashuang peanuts by herself.

The guard who cleaned up the mess poured a bucket of salt water on Nanny Zhang, but there was still no response. They looked at each other, and one of them reached out to check Nanny Zhang's pulse. After confirming that she was still alive, they were planning to drag her away. Nanny suddenly opened her eyes at this moment, before everyone came back to their senses, she rushed straight at You Qing.

"Princess be careful!"

"princess!"

Youqing raised his head in doubt, he opened his mouth, but before he could see what was going on, Nanny Zhang had already pushed him to the rockery, and his forehead hit a sharp stone heavily, and the pain in his hand was so painful for Youqing. The peanuts were not caught, and they fell all over the ground with a "crash".

"... Qingqing!"

The guard hurriedly caught him and handed him over to Xue Bai. Youqing was knocked dizzy, and when he touched his forehead, blood came out from his hand. Youqing was terrified and couldn't help crying Said: "I just hid aside and ate a few peanuts, why am I so unlucky?"

"Please come over here with the imperial doctor." Xue Bai looked cold, and he was no longer as calm as before. He picked up Youqing and brought him into the house. He glanced coldly at Zhang Nanny who was pinned to the ground from the corner of his eye. , her thin lips parted lightly: "Give her to this king to execute!"

"It hurts."

Youqing's eyes widened, but he couldn't see clearly. He tried hard to hold back his tears, "It's unlucky!"

Xue Bai kissed his finger, "It's my fault."

You Qing only felt that his mind was a mess, his forehead hurt, his head hurt, and his eyes hurt, so Xiao Qing sniffed and said, "It's your fault."

Xue Bai summoned the guards to stop the bleeding of Youqing first, and Youqing fell into a drowsy sleep. In the drowsiness, it seemed that the imperial doctor came. He heard the imperial doctor say to Xue Bai: "The princess's forehead was hit by a hard object, judging from the pulse condition , there is no serious problem, and the fetus in the womb is also safe and sound, just wait for him to wake up."

"...The concubine hit the dragon pillar. Judging from the pulse, it seems that there is a backlog of blood stagnating inside, and it is blocked. As for whether the blood congestion will affect it, we need to wait for follow-up observation."

These words suddenly floated in his mind, and Youqing's consciousness was drowsy. He couldn't help thinking about when he bumped into the dragon pillar, but the more he thought about it, the more severe his head hurt.

dragon column.

The queen mother and mother Zhang.

...The Compassion Palace!

Many fragments swarmed in, and all the forgotten memories came back at this moment. Before Xiaoqing had time to review them one by one, she had already fallen into a coma completely due to exhaustion.

When I woke up again, it was already five days later.

Another autumn rain brought a bit of winter coolness at the beginning of the month, and the carriage pulled the wheel through the mountains and fields. Mrs. Zhao touched the young man's forehead, and put the copper hand stove that the young master had coveted for a long time into the quilt. Mrs. Zhao looked at the young man. With a clear sleeping face, he couldn't help sighing, "What kind of evil is this?"

"Ma'am, it's all right." The young master comforted: "The imperial doctor has already said, it's nothing serious."

"It's a fool not to bump his head, but he bumped it twice in a row." Mrs. Zhao frowned, "You said he simply forgot who he was this time, what should we do?"

The young master also panicked, "What else can I do, let's serve cold salad."

Mrs. Zhao frowned deeply, "And the prince... oh."

It was the second day after Youqing passed out, after the imperial physician said nothing happened, Xue Bai sent someone back to the mansion to inform them of the matter.At first when she heard that Youqing had hit her head again, Mrs. Zhao thought it was because Youqing was short-sighted. Who knew that after rushing to the palace, she realized that this time Youqing was more than just hitting her head. Shi asked clearly, only then did he realize that if he was to blame, it should be his fault, after all, he was the one who was deceived.

Xue Bai, who hadn't slept all night, said to them: "Ye-in-law, mother-in-law, I have something to ask."

"...Since Qingqing has always wanted to go back to Jinling, can I trouble my father-in-law and mother-in-law to take him back to Jinling?"

"Go back to Jinling when you return to Jinling." The young master said with a broad heart, "The prince also said that the capital has been very chaotic these days. He and we are both by Qingqing's side. It's not that he failed to keep people under control, let alone let Qingqing If he stays, no one can accompany him."

The young master paused, and sighed, "Qingqing really can't beat her head!"

As soon as Zhao lowered her head, she caught a glimpse of the young man's eyelashes moving a few times, and then slowly opened his eyes.Zhao couldn't help being pleasantly surprised: "Qingqing? Qingqing? Are you awake?"

You Qing frowned, and asked uncertainly: "Mother?"

"Mother?" Mrs. Zhao and the young master looked at each other, his uncertain tone made the young master feel like an enemy, the young master pointed at himself and asked anxiously, "Do you know me?"

"You idiot who doesn't know daddy!"

Youqing sat up slowly, rubbed his eyes a few times, but still couldn't see, he murmured, "Why don't you turn on the lights? It's so dark."

"black?"

Zhao's heart skipped a beat, "Qingqing, can't you see us?"

Youqing shook his head honestly, and asked strangely: "You don't light the lights in the middle of the night, how can I see?"

Mrs. Zhao pursed her lips, and had a guess in her heart. The young master stretched out his short and thick five fingers and shook in front of Youqing, "Qingqing, what is this?"

You Qing shook his head, "I can't see it."

The young master froze, then stared at You Qing like a ghost, and said, "Ma'am, what am I talking about, his head is really hard to hit!"