dumb queen

After waking up again, Xie Chaoge felt dizzy due to the bright yellow all over his eyes. He opened his eyes and looked at the curtain above his head for a while before he realized that the place lying under him turned out to be the dragon couch where the emperor rested.

He got up in a panic and wanted to get out of bed. Su Jing, who was standing not far away, saw it and hurried over.

"Your Majesty, you are awake."

Xie Chaoge's hands had already been bandaged, wrapped in thick white gauze, and he could feel that the palms of his hands had been smeared with medicine. The warmth relieved a lot of pain, and even his knees had been smeared with medicine.

Xie Chaoge looked at Su Jing with some confusion in his eyes, wasn't he punished by Xiao Jin to kneel in front of Xuanyan Palace, why did he come here again.

Su Jing took the initiative to explain, "Your Majesty, you fainted in Xuanyan Palace. The Emperor personally carried you here, and asked Imperial Physician Liu to treat your injury."

Xie Chaoge was still a little weak, after a while, he gestured to Su Jing, asking where the emperor had gone.

Su Jing replied, "The emperor is meeting with the courtiers in the front hall, and told the empress that you are not allowed to leave even if you wake up, just wait here."

Xie Chaoge had no choice but to nod, and wanted to stand up from the bed. The emperor's dragon bed is not a place where you can sit casually. It's fine if you were fainted just now, but now you are awake. Besides, he is still stained with blood, so I dare not Sit with peace of mind without knowing how to measure.

But when he stood up, there was still a dull pain in his knees, Xie Chaoge gritted his teeth and endured it, and obediently stood in the hall waiting for Xiao Jin to come back.

Xiao Jin didn't return to the hall until it was getting dark. When he saw Xie Chaoge who was still obediently waiting, his complexion became terribly cold.

Walking in front of Xie Chaoge, Xiao Jin gently held one of his palms and placed it between them.

"When did you wake up?"

Su Jing on the side hurriedly replied, "Back to the emperor, Concubine Xie woke up two hours ago."

"Am I asking you?"

Xiao Jin's voice was displeased, and he lowered his eyes to look at the still pale face in front of him.

Su Jing hurriedly knelt down, "Your Majesty, this servant shouldn't talk too much. I know I made a mistake, and I hope the Emperor will punish me."

"That's all," Xiao Jin said in a deep voice, "Go out."

"Yes."

Su Jing dismissed the other maids and eunuchs in the palace, retreated out and closed the gate of the palace.

Xiao Jin pulled Xie Chaoge to the couch next to him, and after sitting down, let Xie Chaoge stand between his legs, and then lifted his palm to look at it.

"Do you know who I went to see just now?"

Xie Chaoge's hands were easily caught by a big palm, and Xiao Jin's fingers could be felt gently caressing the gauze in his palm.

Xie Chaoge was a little scared, but he didn't dare to withdraw his hand, and slowly shook his head.

"Master Xiangguo Xie Yuan, who has power over the ruling and opposition parties, is your father."

Xie Chaoge stared slightly in surprise, he didn't expect that it was his father who came into the palace to meet the saint.

Although Xie Yuan said that he was respectful and obedient to the emperor Xiao Jin on the surface, but the entire northern court knew that the Xiangguo Mansion was part of the queen mother's party, and Xie Yuan was the only confidant trusted by the queen mother, so Xiao Jin always wanted to seize power from Xie Yuan and emptied himself. He is very difficult.

"I also heard a secret recently, would my concubine want to know?"

Xiao Jin had a smile on his lips, but his eyes looking at Xie Chaoge became even colder.

"I heard that the death of Concubine Guan was caused by Lord Xiangguo."

After hearing this, Xie Chaoge's body froze suddenly.

Concubine Guan was the former emperor's concubine and also Xiao Jin's biological mother. After the death of Concubine Guan, Xiao Jin was adopted under the knee of the current empress dowager. Yuan secretly colluded and won away half of the country in the court.

If Concubine Guan died under Xie Yuan's hands, then...then the entire Xiangguo Mansion can be regarded as Xiao Jin's enemy.

Xie Chaoge opened his eyes wide and couldn't regain his senses for a long time, only felt that the blood all over his body began to flow backwards, and the hands gently held by Xiao Jin were also slowly trembling.

But after telling such a big secret, Xiao Jin was able to restrain and suppress it very well, he didn't even have any ups and downs on his face, and he had been in the court with treacherous and dark tides all year round, and he had long been able to express all his emotions. Well covered.

"Why are you trembling like this?" Xiao Jin still looked at Xie Chaoge with a smile, and then let go of his hand, "Why? I'm afraid that I will destroy the whole family of the Xiangguo Mansion?"

It is not an exaggeration to kill even the Nine Clans.

Xie Chaoge couldn't keep calm in his heart, with a little water in his eyes, he gestured anxiously and tremblingly to Xiao Jin and asked Xiao Jin: Your Majesty...is...is it a mistake?Although my father is a strong man, he will not do such a thing that murders human life!

Xiao Jin laughed contemptuously, "How much do you think you know him? You are just an outcast of his Xiangguo Mansion, the three sons of the Xie family, when did Xie Yuan put you on the table?"

This is correct, although Xie Yuan was very kind to Xie Chaoge's biological mother, but after his biological mother passed away, Xie Yuan regarded Xie Chaoge as nothing, and even the Xie family didn't take him seriously.

Later, when Xiao Jin issued an imperial decree to make Xie Chaoge his concubine, Xie Yuan became very angry, hung up Xie Chaoge and beat him severely, saying that he was not as gentle and military as his two elder brothers. He would be included in the harem. As a man, he really disgraced the Xie family, making the Xie family feel ashamed in the entire court, and being regarded as a eunuch's favorite who relied on the emperor's favor.

Xie Chaoge bit his lips lightly, being stung deep in his heart, but he didn't know how to react anymore.

"It's an old thing, and if you can't find evidence, you can't be guilty."

Xiao Jin stretched out his hand, raised Xie Chaoge's chin, made him look at him, and then said slowly, "But sooner or later, I will let Xie's family go up and down, so I will die badly."

Xie Chaoge's jaw suddenly hurt, and his bones rattled under the pinch of his strong fingers. He frowned and cried bitterly, two lines of tears slid down his beautiful eyes.

"However, I can let you go," Xiao Jin approached with a smile, "As long as you can stand by my side and help me eradicate the Xie family, I will definitely protect you and prevent anyone from hurting you. how?"

Xie Chaoge's tears instantly became more turbulent, and what was revealed in his eyes was the pain of struggle and entanglement, but he was powerless to resist, unable to speak, his jaw was tightly pinched and he could not shake his head, he could only silently Weeping silently.

How could this be, how could he be given such a choice?

In any case, that was the home he grew up in, his dear family, and his most respected father!