Fake concubine, real queen

In just a few days, within the forbidden area of ​​the imperial city, everything was turned upside down.

The crown prince forced the palace, the capital was under martial law, the emperor was seriously ill, and the empress was imprisoned... This series of events happened so quickly that it was almost too late for people to react. In Luan Palace, everyone was in panic. Those who were lucky did not have the New Year's Eve banquet, and most of them were huddled in their own houses, looking at the imperial guards patrolling the street outside through the gap of the Zhumen, feeling anxious and panicked, not daring to act rashly .

As for Xiao Chen, no matter in the eyes of the courtiers or the palace people, she is undoubtedly as weak as a dodder flower, so innocent that she is almost ignorant of world affairs, and far from being a competent queen. No matter what she thinks, at this moment, she should He was terrified and embarrassed.

Pei Zhaoyuan thought so too.

But today, in front of the imperial couch in the Lanzheng Hall, the back of the figure she saw trembled slightly because of sobbing. Although she looked down at the emperor on the bed, she was sitting upright, and she didn't look like Pei Zhaoyuan was out of breath crying on the couch as he thought.

The woman's sobbing sound was intermittent, and as long as she paid a little attention, she could probably hear that she was deliberately restraining and suppressing.

To some extent, she still retains the demeanor that a queen of a country should have.

The smile on Pei Zhaoyuan's face faded a little. He looked at the back of Xiao Chen and remained silent for a while.

Empress Chen's back was only stiff for a short moment, and she seemed to quickly understand who the uninvited guest who broke into the inner hall was, but she was not too surprised.

The woman wiped her tears for the last time, then slowly stood up from the imperial couch where she was sitting, and turned to look at the prince who was silently watching her.

There were only a few lamps lit in the hall, although the light was sufficient, but the light was somewhat dim.

Empress Chen was still wearing the red palace attire she had worn on the New Year's Eve banquet.

The fine silk, which is as red as vermilion, complements her forehead, cheeks, and slender neck more and more. Her complexion is like snow, radiant and almost transparent, and the original delicate palace makeup on her face, She has already shed tears because of the tears, and she has been married for many years, but at this moment under the dim light, she does not look old at all, which is in stark contrast to the emperor's imminent death. Empress Chen's Compared with the time when the cardamom years and the fame moved Jinghua, the beauty seems to have never faded.

No wonder her two sons and daughters have such a good color that makes people forget the vulgarity.

"...Yuan'er."

Empress Chen said.

Pei Zhaoyuan watched her silent for a while, curled his lips, but the smile didn't reach his eyes: "My aunt said she didn't want to see me, but I still came in... Isn't my aunt angry with me?"

He no longer called Xiao Chen's "mother queen", and he no longer called himself "children", and his speech and demeanor were quite different from the benevolent and filial appearance before, which made Xiao Chen slightly stunned.

But even so, she still didn't seem too surprised.

After being silent for a while, Empress Chen seemed to finally come back to her senses. Her face gradually became sad and joyless. The air was silent for a long time, and Empress Chen said in a low voice: "Since Yuan'er has been able to do what he is today, Bengong... what is there to be surprised about?"

Empress Chen's expression, not to mention others, the prince had never seen before, not only slightly startled.

... His aunt, who had always been protected by the emperor's father, was strict and caring, and thought that she would not be able to withstand any major events, but she did not expect to be so calm now.

...But he underestimated his aunt.

Pei Zhaoyuan still had that faint smile on his face, and said in a gentle voice: "I thought that my aunt would be angry and resentful when she saw Gu, or that she would tell Gu bitterly and persuade Gu to turn around?"

Empress Chen was startled when she heard the words, but she seemed to have heard something funny when she came back to her senses. She shook her head and said softly: "...Turn back?"

"Back to what?"

Pei Zhaoyuan was slightly startled, and looked up, but couldn't see the exact expression on Empress Chen's face behind the light under the dancing lights, only her voice was still faint, showing no emotional ups and downs.

Pei Zhaoyuan said: "My aunt used to... didn't she like to discipline orphans the most..."

Empress Chen interrupted him.

"Turn back...?"

"Turning back...you need to have a head to turn back."

"It's just that I didn't have anything to do with my sister back then... But these have nothing to do with Your Majesty. He is your biological father. Over the years, he has also watched, raised and raised you up with his own eyes. , how... how could you be so cruel to him?"

"I originally thought that although you came out of my sister's belly...but you are still just a child. The saint said that there is no distinction between teaching and learning. With your father carefully disciplined and Bengong watching, you will surely grow up." Be a good character, be a good prince, and take over the burden on your father's shoulders in the future, protecting the country and the people of the Pei family...but you...but you..."

When Empress Chen said this, she suddenly stopped, and she stopped talking. She sighed in a low voice: "Forget it...it's all my fault."

After Pei Zhaoyuan finished speaking, his eyes widened slightly, as if he heard something funny, he opened his mouth as if he was laughing, but he didn't laugh out loud, only a few shallow breaths in the inner hall of Lanzheng Palace. It spread lightly, which seemed a little ironic.

"Aunt said... what do you think?"

He walked towards Empress Chen step by step, his eyes fixed on her, the smile that seemed to have never been absent, but disappeared without a trace.

"Does Aunt still think that even if you treat Gu as if you were your own child, what happened back then...you and the emperor didn't tell Gu, so Gu wouldn't know? Gu would be unaware, and you've made me sick all these years You are so hypocritical and paralyzed, have you forgotten that you are the culprit who killed your mother?"

After so many years, even though she has recovered from her illness and regained her memory, she can hear the wound being torn open in front of her with her own ears, and see her nephew, whom she loved so much, hate her to the bone and wish to eat her alive Despite the appearance of meat, Empress Chen couldn't help but suddenly turned pale even though she had been psychologically prepared.

She closed her eyes and said: "I have been ill all this time, and I kept it from you... It was your father's idea. He didn't want to tell you what happened back then. He was afraid that you would get into the wrong place. Your father just doesn't want you." Like my sister... and..."

However, Pei Zhaoyuan seemed to have heard something funny, stopped in his tracks, raised his eyebrows and said: "So... you are still doing it for loneliness?"

Empress Chen was silent for a moment, and said: "The reason why your mother offended His Majesty, hanged herself... Do you know what is the reason?"

Her chest rose and fell a little faster, she unconsciously clenched her five fingers under the sleeve, and said, "No... since Yuan'er was able to get the fake Zongshan Ma Bao at the palace banquet on New Year's Eve last year, you should have known that It's Heng'er...you already knew how Yu'er disappeared back then, you...you all know."

Pei Zhaoyuan looked at her expressionlessly, and said, "That's right, my aunt's guess is correct. Even if you didn't tell Gu about what happened back then, Gu knows everything clearly."

Empress Chen said: "Since you know it, why do you want to..."

Pei Zhaoyuan said in a hurry: "Gu knows, but what's the matter?"

"Could it be that my aunt feels that because the queen mother moved your daughter back then, Gu will feel guilty towards you for this, and think that it's the queen mother who is sorry for you?"

"If it wasn't for my aunt! Snatched away the queen mother's things! If it wasn't for my aunt, who forced her to go to such a field in the palace, she wasn't forced to do so. How could she do such a thing of suicide?"

"My aunt has hurt my mother... Do you still think that if you give me some small favors, I will forget all this and admit that I am your mother? I advise my aunt to wake up, don't make people laugh by saying such nonsense. It's not Royal Father, as long as my aunt asks, she will soft-heartedly agree to anything."

Empress Chen stared at him in a daze, and it took a while to come back to her senses. She took a step back and said in a difficult voice, "You...you are simply crazy..."

However, Pei Zhaoyuan didn't seem to hear what he said, and still stared at her with blood-red eyes, saying word by word: "Auntie probably doesn't know? Over the years, every time I see you and the emperor alone, a husband and wife love When you look so deep, Gu feels disgusting and wants to spit it out. Every time I see your family of three, harmonious and beautiful, and family happiness, Gu will think that this imperial city of singing and dancing has buried the bones of my mother. I am alone, and every day, every day, I watch you stepping on her blood, the hypocrisy of a matriarchal world, and what a person is doing. "

"If Gu doesn't remember the grievances my mother has suffered, the hatred in my heart, after so many years, no one in this world will remember that she came here and left... It was so painful."

Empress Chen couldn't listen anymore, she frowned and interrupted in a low voice: "You are simply...you are unreasonable... what happened back then, it was clearly your mother...your mother...if you don't believe me, just go Just ask your uncle, he also knows that I dare to swear with my conscience, even though I married her with His Majesty back then, I never felt the slightest bit of jealousy, never thought of harming her, and never I did a bad thing…”

During Empress Chen's words, her eyes turned red at some point.

"...But she, with a kind face, always told me that even in the palace, the sisters of the Chen family would never get along. She asked me not to create estrangement with her, but she killed my Yu'er... ..."

Pei Zhaoyuan sneered, and said, "Auntie doesn't have to act like this in front of Gu. Since you dared to rob your mother's things back then, and the Heavenly Dao Wheel was not happy with the retribution, didn't you think that there would be retribution one day?"

Empress Chen frowned and said, "Why have I ever snatched something from my sister?"

Pei Zhaoyuan did not know when he had already walked in front of Empress Chen, his eyes were cold, but Empress Chen was not afraid, instead of taking a step back, she just met his gaze, and her eyes turned cold.

Pei Zhaoyuan looked at her for a long while, then suddenly snorted coldly, and said: "The concubine was born a bitch, no matter how good-looking she is, she is still a bitch in her bones, full of lies, and now you are still a bitch." Do you refuse to admit it?"

Empress Chen bit her lips and turned pale, and said angrily: "You...you are so presumptuous!"

However, Pei Zhaoyuan seemed to have never heard of it, and just said bitterly: "...the emperor father wanted to choose the queen mother as the queen. If you, a bitch, are not used to stealing other people's things, you must have asked your grandfather to marry you together. Entering the palace...how did she...how did she end up like this?"

"How can an orphan...how can he lose his mother at a young age and become a direct prince without a mother?"

"A slut like you, when you were young, you used to love the limelight. You stole the title of the queen mother's poetry meeting, and you coveted the title of the most beautiful woman in the capital. Before the mother queen came out of the court, others would point and say "Chen!" The head girl of the family is not as good as the concubine's..."

"If it wasn't for the queen mother... Before the mother died, Gu secretly ran to meet her. Wouldn't Gu also never know about these things, and will always be played by you, a vicious woman with a vicious heart?"

Empress Chen was taken aback by what he said, and then said after a while: "This... This is simply nonsense. You only need to ask your uncle about what happened back then, and you will know that it is not as you just said..."

However, Pei Zhaoyuan suddenly pinched Queen Chen's neck, and said angrily: "Uncle? He just cares about himself, the prosperity and wealth of the Chen family, and wants to continue to control Chao Gang, take over from his grandfather, and continue to be his authority." The spring and autumn dream of invading the government and the public is nothing more than a big dream! Do you think you can fool Gu by bringing out your uncle? Gu tells you, don’t even think about it! You bitch who killed your mother! Don’t even think about it!”

Empress Chen was slender, how could she stand him pinching her neck like this, she could hardly breathe even if she was strangled by him, she couldn't even cough, her face was purple and blue.

At this moment, Pei Zhaoyuan's trouser leg was suddenly grabbed by a hand.

"Yuan'er..."

"Yuan'er...you...cough...you are...cough...what are you doing?"