"Thank you, Queen!" The eunuch thanked him hurriedly.
The prince's annual income was only 12,000 taels. Princess Xinping was favored by the emperor and was specially rewarded with an official position. She rented six shops and rooms, a manor, and the official house rented treasury to earn interest and silver, etc., so her annual income was only 7,000 taels.
Ten taels of silver is very little for a senior eunuch who can enter and leave the palace, but it is considered good for a middle-level eunuch. Besides, it is the dignity rewarded by the empress.
The eunuch received the reward and left, but the queen did not take a look immediately. Zhaoxia looked at her face and without saying a word, she ordered the food to be passed on and gave it to the queen: "The princess on behalf of the king, after counting the days, she has been pregnant for more than eight months.
Well, there will be a young prince soon, why don’t you ask a wise man to pray for him?”
After hearing this, the queen sipped her porridge and thought thoughtfully: "This is a good idea. I have to make preparations later. It's a full moon and I have to recruit a troupe. It's still a short period of time for the Prince's Palace, so I may not be able to recruit a good troupe.
You go pick some people who can sing and get ready."
The palace maid was squeezing it and saying nothing. After a while, Zhaoxia took the plate down, picked up the scripture again from the wooden box, and turned to the previous page.
Her fingers were trembling slightly due to her eager movements, and the paper she was holding was also trembling slightly.
"..." The Queen didn't seem to believe it. She carefully looked at the two characters in the fifth column of the page, and couldn't help but say: "Impossible, this is Qin Liusheng's cousin's name, and it also has Qin Liusheng's writing style.
, this was the agreement my son Afu made with me back then, how could he know?"
Tan Liusheng was not a well-known person. He was a civil servant more than a hundred years ago. Although he was somewhat famous in a small circle, he was not very famous. There are countless such literati throughout the ages, and they have all been submerged in the tide of time.
The only thing that makes him look special is his good calligraphy.
But to say that this word is so good that it can be called everyone, spread to later generations, and be widely known by later generations? It is not that good.
However, certain strokes of this person's calligraphy were a bit special, so the prince made an agreement with the queen using this person's calligraphy and calligraphy. If there was any content that needed to be conveyed secretly, he could mix this person's calligraphy into ordinary letters.
, this is a reminder.
Then according to special rules and special writing methods, select and combine them from beginning to end, which is what you really want to convey to the other party.
This was the agreement her son Afu made with her back then, but he never had time to use it. Why did the king know about it?
While the queen was suspicious, she also felt a sense of ominousness.
If Dai Wang has to use this method to deliver the news, is Dai Wang in big trouble?
When the queen thought of this, her body trembled, and she flipped through the three volumes of scriptures, page by page, in the order of the top, middle and bottom volumes, and soon found a few words that were obviously "Qin Ti".
There are not many words, just six. Read them in order, which is: "Reenact the old things."
"Replay the old things again?" These six words rolled on the tip of the tongue without being read out loud, but like a thunder, they exploded in the Queen's mind!
The queen immediately stood up, her fingers digging deeper into her flesh. She made no sound, but silently looked at the nearby courtyard, as if admiring the rain.
It was night, and the rain was pouring in like mist, making the sky, the earth, the palace rooms, and the maids waiting in the corridors blurry. The only drawback was that the wind blew by and seemed a bit cold.
I don't know how long it took, but after Zhaoxia came in silently, the queen let go of her hand, and a few drops of blood flowed down her clenched palm.
"Your Majesty!" Zhaoxia whispered, and was about to step forward to check, but was stopped by the Queen.
"Go and call Yu Han over." The queen ordered coldly.
Yu Han was the eunuch who followed the queen before she entered the palace. He was rescued by the queen when she was still a princess, and later followed the queen for decades. He was already about fifty years old, so he was able to be entrusted with important tasks by the queen.
thing.
Zhaoxia felt a chill in her heart and hurriedly went out, asking Yu Hanyu to come over quickly.
"Empress." When Han quickly walked into the side hall, what he saw was the Empress stroking the scriptures and meditating. He did not disturb her for a moment, and the hall fell into a strange silence. Only the dim candlelight outlined a long shadow on the ground.
After a while, Yu Han's soft call made the queen wake up from the memories of the past. Looking at the old eunuch in front of her, the queen's mood became more and more complicated.
Sometimes when she saw Yu Han, the queen couldn't help but think of her own youth and Ah Fu's childhood. How happy they were at that time, unlike later when they became inhuman and ghosts for the sake of the throne.
"Yu Han, you are always in charge of the acting king's information, right? Go and get his latest information, and..."
The Queen was silent for a moment and said, "Check out the recent events and let me know as soon as possible."
"Yes, I'll do it now. You must take care of yourself." Yu Han said hurriedly. The queen was tired of hearing such words and didn't want to hear them anymore. She waved her hand and asked him to leave.
Yu Han could only sigh inwardly and slowly exit.
As soon as he got outside, Yu Han straightened up his bent waist and began to instruct his godson to do things.
He himself hurried out to get information about the king in person, and also asked his clever godson to investigate what happened today.
"Fortunately, the emperor seems to feel guilty, so the empress has not lost her position and can still retain some power." Yu Han sighed heavily.
It was late at night, when the lanterns in the main hall were lit up one by one, and a few more candles were lit in the main hall.
The Queen flipped through the pieces of information under the candle, her hands gradually trembling.
"It's too much to bully others, it's too much to bully others..." The above content made the queen feel angry and sad.
In a place where she couldn't see, the emperor actually did so many things to her grandson. One by one, they may not be big things, but when they are looked at together, they are a bit shocking.
The queen staggered when she stood up, but refused Zhaoxia's support and walked out on her own.
Walking in the corridor outside, wandering in it, looking at the rain falling outside, the Queen pressed her hand on her chest, feeling like it was blocked by a big stone.
"Empress." At this time, one of Yu Han's godsons came up to her and confessed. He lowered his voice and told the queen the news he had just investigated.
For one moment, the queen's face flushed red, and the next moment, all the blood disappeared and turned pale.
"You mean alchemy..."
"The exquisite heart with seven orifices..."
"The Prince's Mansion..."
She moved her lips slightly and silently recited the keywords she obtained one by one in her mind. When connected together, she could easily come to a conclusion that would be horrifying to hear.
"That old man, does he want to kill his great-grandson to get his heart and refine it?"
Although the child had not yet been born from his mother's womb, he did not have deep feelings for the emperor and the empress. But the empress could think of more from this detail.
"Afu has already died in the hands of an old man. If he kills his great-grandson again, it will be equivalent to killing his father and his son..."
If a father dies and a son dies, what should his grandson do? No matter how arrogant the old man is, he cannot remain indifferent.
After all, it was just the revenge for killing his father, and it can be explained by being deceived by the traitor back then. But when he added the revenge for killing his son, or for refining elixir... put them together, who can believe that Dai Wang will not remember it in his heart?
With the character of the old man, I am afraid that not only will he not feel that he owes the king, but every time he sees the king, he will be reminded of the scandal of killing his great-grandson to extend his life?
How could the emperor let go of someone who might hate him deeply and keep this unstable factor?