Chapter 368, Queen Mother returns to the palace
When seeing Shi Fuxin applying lip balm, Chu Yao moved his body, hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked over, and under Shi Fuxin's surprised eyes, picked up the lip balm and looked at it.
Shi Fuxin smiled slightly: "Why, do you want to wipe some too?"
Chu Yao glanced at her: "Do I need this?"
Shi Fuxin laughed even more happily: "I was wrong, you are a natural beauty, unlike me, you are a vulgar fan."
Looking at Shi Fuxin who stretched her brows and eyes with relaxed and cheerful tone, Chu Yao only felt relaxed, and an impulse arose in her heart, and couldn't help but take the initiative to start talking about what happened in Rongxintang.
"Grandmother and Father want to know what happened in the Millennium Building yesterday."
Shi Fuxin was very interested, 'Oh? ’ said: “Then did you tell them?”
Chu Yao looked at her: "Do you think I should tell them?"
Shi Fuxin asked back: "Do you want to tell them?"
Chu Yao: "I don't want to."
Shi Fuxin: "Then don't tell them." She said, looking at him with a smile, "Anyway, the initiative is in your hands, and you can do whatever you want."
After getting the answer he wanted, Chu Yao's eyes suddenly showed a smile, and he said something about Princess Guan trying to stop him from falling: "Did I go too far?"
"I just left, but the mother and concubine will definitely be blamed by grandmother and father."
Shi Fuxin said unceremoniously: "That is a matter between the concubine mother and the old concubine and the prince. If the concubine mother is really punished, that is her own business. It is because she is incapable of dealing with the concubine and the prince."
Chu Yao hesitated: "But it's because of me"
Shi Fuxin looked at him: "Everyone has to bear the consequences of their own choices. The concubine mother chose to obey the old concubine and father in everything. Now that she doesn't let them do what they want, it seems normal for her to be reprimanded."
"What you want to think about now is, what do you want to choose?"
"Do you choose to make the concubine mother feel better, you compromise and bear to help her share the pressure imposed on her by other people in the palace; or harden your heart and let the concubine mother bear everything she should bear?"
Chu Yao looked at Shi Fuxin: "You really dare to say anything." If this word is spread, Shi Liu will definitely be labeled as unfilial.
Shi Fuxin looked at him with a smile: "That's because I'm facing you, and it's rare for you to take the initiative to talk to me about your thoughts. Of course, I will tell you the true thoughts in my heart."
"In this way, you will know the real me, won't you?"
Chu Yao was silent for a moment: "Have you always been so indifferent to other people's thoughts? Including parents and relatives."
Shi Fuxin thought for a while and said: "As long as I know what I want, others can't control me. To achieve the goal, I always have to pay something. If my relatives don't understand halfway, then it depends on me. Do you care more about your loved ones or more about achieving your goals.”
Said, looking at Chu Yao, "It's like when you get along with everyone in the palace, do you want to make your mother and concubine feel better and sacrifice yourself to endure everything, or do you want to get rid of the control of the palace?"
“As long as you think clearly about what you want, all problems can be easily solved.”
Chu Yao frowned: "Is there no way to have the best of both worlds?"
Shi Fuxin smiled: "If you have one, teach me, I'm all ears."
Chu Yao stopped talking.
At this time, Shi Fuxin had already dressed up, and stood up with a smile: "Let's go, let's go to dinner." While walking, she said happily, "I am very happy that you can take the initiative to share your feelings with me, and continue in the future!"
Chu Yao glanced at her: "I'd be happy to share it with you, but I'm afraid you won't listen to it, and won't respond to me after listening, or just perfunctory me."
Shi Fuxin walked to the dining table and sat down, looked at Chu Yao with a smile: "If you want to share, then you can just say it. As for whether I will respond and how to respond, that is my business."
"If I don't want to listen to your sharing, then I will tell you directly."
"Sister, in our relationship, can we each take care of our own affairs? Don't try to speculate on each other's thoughts, because we are not roundworms in other people's stomachs."
"Conjectures are easy to cause misunderstandings, and it is easy to damage one's confidence. If you can ask directly in person, let's make it clear in person, okay?"
Seeing that Chu Yao was about to speak immediately, Shi Fuxin hurriedly said: "Don't test people with certain things, for example, I won't tell you the reason why the sixth prince asked me out. You are testing me by asking me now. .”
"If I really don't tell you, you probably think that I don't believe you anymore. Why do you bother yourself?"
Chu Yao was speechless: "You have exhausted everything, what else should I say?!"
Shi Fuxin thought for a while and said: "I want to be in love with you until the end of life, but I also want to be myself. I can't have one more you, so I will give up everything else, right?"
"Who are you?"
"Apart from being my husband, you are also the Third Young Master Yao of the palace, the commander of the Supervisory Department, the important official of the emperor, and many other identities. Will you abandon everything else just because you are my husband? "
Chu Yao didn't want to talk anymore, so he picked up the bowl and started to eat sullenly.
He knew it, he said it would not be six.
Not only can't say it, but in the end, I feel that what she said is very reasonable.
Forget it, let’s live like this.
In Prince Rong's mansion, only some minor conflicts erupted, but outside, because of the death of the sixth prince and the broken leg of the prince, there was a heated discussion like a hurricane.
Qian Qing Palace, Chu Yao submitted all the information he had investigated to the emperor.
The emperor looked sullenly, carefully looking at the book on Chu Yao.
"The Yuan family, one of the top ten imperial merchants, was wiped out overnight!"
The Yuan family belonged to the Sixth Prince, the emperor knew, even the Yuan family belonged to Chu Qinghuan, the emperor also knew.
Now, the Yuan family has been wiped out, and the sixth prince is also dead!
The emperor looked at Chu Yao fiercely: "Who did it?"
He has many heirs, so he doesn't value the princes so much, but this doesn't mean that others can kill his son!
Chu Yao bent back and said: "The Yuan family that was brought down by the second head of the Sea Turtle Gang in the South China Sea, and the person who fell down with the sixth prince is the second head of the Sea Turtle Gang."
"Not long ago, members of the Sea Turtle Gang robbed more than a dozen ships from the Yuan family."
The emperor was very angry and laughed back: "Well, in my capital, even pirates can come and go and kill people at will!"
There was a silence in Qianqing Palace, and after a while, the emperor asked again: "Have you found out who is behind the Sea Turtle Gang?"
Chu Yao: "The Sea Turtle Gang seems to have something to do with the Duke of Ming Dynasty, but I have no proof."
Chu Yao: "According to the confessions of the people around and the situation at the scene, the prince's fall was really an accident."
The emperor narrowed his eyes: "But the prince, the third prince, and the fifth prince all said that the prince was pushed down."
Chu Yao: "Did the prince say who pushed him? Even if there is no specific person, if you tell me who pushed him from that direction, I can get someone."
The emperor stopped talking, not because he didn't want to, but because the prince couldn't explain why.
"Stalking everywhere in the capital will be stricter in the future. In the future, whenever people from the rivers and lakes enter and leave the capital, if the supervisory department cannot monitor them in advance, I will take you for questioning."
Chu Yao quickly responded: "I obey the order."
"Okay, you step back."
When Chu Yao left the Qianqing Palace, the emperor coughed lightly.
The next moment, the Yang lord of Liangyi Hall, dressed in black, quietly appeared in the hall.
The emperor: "Can the supreme master kill people from a distance?"
Hall Master Yang's expression turned serious: "It's possible, but it's very difficult not to alarm others at all."
The emperor: "You have also visited the Millennium Building, did you find any traces of hands-on work?"
Hall Master Yang shook his head: "No." After a pause, "The prince fell down. Maybe it was an accident."
The emperor is well aware of the strength of Lord Yang. Since he said so, there is a high probability that the crown prince is lying.
The sixth child died in the Millennium Building, and the crown prince, the third child, and the fifth child happened to be there, so there might be their schemes involved.
"Is it really Yue Chuyao's wife who went to the Millennium Building that day?"
Palace Master Yang nodded, and explained everything he had investigated: "The Sixth Prince stopped Shi Shi's carriage on the way, and the two of them did not know what to say, so Shi Shi followed the Sixth Prince to the Millennium Tower. "
"It's just that Shi Shi suddenly felt unwell when he was approaching the Millennium Tower, and went to the nearest restaurant to change. When the sixth prince fell from the building, Shi Shi didn't come out of the Embroidery Tower."
"There is poisonous smoke with aphrodisiac ingredients remaining in the private room reserved by the sixth prince."
Hearing this, the emperor suddenly became furious: "Lao Liu is an unsupportable idiot!"
There is no need to ask, the sixth prince asked Shi Shi to go to the Millennium Building, it must be for revenge on Chu Yao!
The emperor, who had some doubts about Shi Fuxin at first, temporarily dismissed the idea after knowing this.
At this time, the emperor regretted that he chose the sixth prince to deal with the Duke of Ming. A few words from Dongfang Yunrong provoked him, and he killed his wife in anger. The girl in the mansion, he was fine, and ran to provoke Chu Yao.
"It's really more than busy with business!"
The emperor smashed a few cups, vented his anger, and then said to Lord Yang: "Keep an eye on Duke Ming's Mansion and the Sea Turtle Gang, I want conclusive evidence of their contacts."
After the Master Yang answered, he withdrew.
As soon as he left, Eunuch Liu, the lord of Yin Hall, entered the hall: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager sent a letter from home."
The emperor immediately sneered and said, "The queen mother is well informed, so I found out that something happened to the prince so soon." He didn't even need to read the letter to guess that the queen mother wrote this letter to return to the palace.
The prince was injured, this is a major event, this time, there is no way to prevent the Queen Mother from returning to the palace!
At the same time, a serious family meeting was also going on in the Duke's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty.
"The people Chang Feng brought to Beijing have been dealt with?"
Ming Guogong sat on the main seat expressionlessly, his expression changing.
Dongfang Changqing lowered his eyes and said: "It's dealt with cleanly. As long as the south side doesn't take the initiative to expose it, even if someone suspects that our family has something to do with the Turtle Gang, they won't be able to produce evidence."
Ming Guogong said angrily: "Over the past few years, Nanhai and our master's family have become more and more estranged. This time, they came to the capital without prior notice. What are they trying to do?"
Dongfang Changqing looked at Ming Guogong: "Father, the South China Sea doesn't listen to our orders very much now, we have to make preparations early."
Pause, "Everyone in the capital knows that our family and the Sixth Prince had a bit of a fight some time ago. Now that the Sixth Prince is dead, someone will definitely think of us, and I think Chu Yao has discovered something."
"Chang Feng's body is still in the Supervision Department. If Chu Yao finds evidence that Chang Feng is from Dongfang's family, the emperor may really tear his face and attack our family."
Ming Guogong was also very troubled by this. He was silent for a while, and suddenly asked: "The prince's leg is really hurt so badly?"
Dongfang Changqing nodded solemnly: "Very seriously, the empress has already begged the emperor to ask Miracle Physician Zhan to come down the mountain to treat the prince."
Ming Guogong frowned: "Miraculous doctor Zhan was my daughter's brother at that time, just in case"
Dongfang Changqing quickly shook his head: "They don't dare, there are so many imperial doctors watching, even if the supernatural doctor's medical skills are better, it is not enough to deceive the world."
"From my son's point of view, the crown prince and the daughter of the Shi family are not at the point of death."
Ming Guogong is not so optimistic: "The daughter of the Shi family is the master of the eldest prince, and she has a grudge with the prince. She will definitely not want to see the prince ascend the throne."
Dongfang Changqing: "Father, Shi's daughter's side is not urgent now. The top priority is, we should think about how to tell Brother Changhong about Changfeng. Changfeng happened in the capital after all."
Ming Guogong thought for a while: "Hide the fact that you killed Chang Feng, and tell the truth, if Dongfang Changhong blamed Chang Feng's death on us, then his position as Patriarch in the south is for nothing .”
Dongfang Changqing: "Okay, my son will send the letter immediately."
Before going out, Dongfang Changqing suddenly stopped and said: "By the way, father, I think we should have some snacks about Changfeng's investigation in Beijing this time. My son thinks there is something big involved here."
The sixth prince died, and the murderer, the Turtle Gang, was naturally wanted. The emperor directly ordered the South China Sea Navy to attack the Turtle Gang with all their might.
The South China Sea is too far away, Shi Fuxin can only wait for a letter from Master Xiang for the news over there.
During this period, because the crown prince was injured, Doctor Zhan was called back to the palace by the emperor. Shi Fuxin didn't want Zhan Peng to stay alone on Mount Heng, so she told Chu Yao that she was going to stay with Zhan Peng for a while.
The capital is now troubled, and Chu Yao didn't want Shi Fuxin to stay in the mansion, so as not to be calculated by others. In addition to other things, the number of times he went back to the mansion became less, so he personally sent her to Hengshan.
lived on the mountain for more than a month, and when Fuxin went down the mountain to return to the mansion, the queen mother had already returned to the palace for more than half a month.
"Ma'am, someone is coming from the palace."
On the day Shi Fuxin returned home, before she had a rest, An Ran hurried in.
"Come to see me?"
An Ran nodded: "Well, the Empress Dowager wants to see you."
Shi Fuxin saw that An Ran hesitated to speak, and frowned: "Why, is there anything else?"
An Ran: "The empress dowager also summoned the cousin girl. Before we returned to the mansion, the cousin girl had actually met the queen mother twice with the old concubine and the princess."
(end of this chapter)