After I became a widow

Under the order of the emperor, the news of his critical illness spread quickly, and for a while, the harem, concubines, and ministers of the court all asked to see him.

The Son of Heaven left Concubine Zhong Guifei in his bedroom to be treated by the imperial physician, and sat aside to read the memorial. At the same time, he did not forget to tell Xiao Beihuai to take over the affairs of the court.

Because Su Jingqing proposed to wait for those people to conspire against him, the emperor decided to ignore it, and issued an imperial decree to let Xiao Beihuai arrange it.

The emperor was at leisure, but Xiao Beihuai still had to send those courtiers and concubines away, and most importantly, he had to pretend to be sad.

It's really embarrassing.

Su Jingqing was also in a dilemma, and discussed with Xiao Beihuai whether he could escape in advance, not to mention that the emperor is fine now, even if something happened to the emperor, he would not feel sad, and people would definitely doubt his reaction when they saw him without any sadness .

Xiao Beihuai acted like a baby, "Are you willing to face these wolves, tigers and leopards alone?"

Su Jingqing: "...don't do this, I can't resist."

After all, His Highness Duke Huai is so upright, and is usually more vigorous and resolute in killing and attacking decisively. It is strange that people are not used to this sudden act of relying on others from behind.

But with his handsome face supporting him, no matter what he does, he won't be annoying. Su Jingqing feels that he really can't stand this hunk acting like a baby.

Xiao Beihuai, however, seemed to have found Su Jingqing's weakness, he insisted on pestering him, and played what is called a grinding little goblin very seriously.

Su Jingqing had no choice but to say, "Okay, I'll accompany you, I won't go anywhere, will I?"

Then His Highness Duke Huai put on a big smiling face, with a little pride of success.

Su Jingqing: "..."

You are good looking and you can do whatever you want.

He touched Xiao Beihuai's waist, and made his own request, "Stop laughing now, smile for me when you get back."

"Okay," Xiao Beihuai agreed without hesitation, and performed a face-changing act instantly.

"Let's split up. You deal with the concubines, and I deal with the ministers. You're welcome. Anyone who wants to make trouble can be arrested and sent back to their bedroom."

"By the way, there's no need to pretend to be sad. Believe it or not, it's up to them."

Su Jingqing nodded, he was not the kind of person who would be polite to others, let alone feel sorry for the emperor.

Those concubines were stopped from entering the emperor's bedroom, so they gathered together to ask the eunuchs who blocked them. Some were crying at the top of their lungs, some asked what was going on inside, and some cursed while trying to break in.

When Su Jing appeared with a cold face, these people fell silent in a tacit understanding.

Su Jingqing said: "Your Majesty has an imperial physician by his side, you ladies don't need to worry, you'd better go back and rest first."

Duke Huai is not a good quarrel, and neither is his concubine. This is the consensus of the women in the emperor's harem, and no one wants to provoke him.

But the situation is different now, if the emperor dies suddenly, their fate will be hard to say.

The next emperor is kind, maybe he can let them out of the palace, or find a place for them to spend the rest of their lives.If someone is cruel, or the emperor asks, they have to be buried with her.

The fate of the women in the harem is never in their own hands.

"Princess Huai, can we go and see the emperor, just to ask for peace."

Su Jingqing shook his head, "The emperor has issued an order to Duke Huai, and no one will be seen. Please go back, ladies and gentlemen."

"What about Zhongmei? We can't, can she see the emperor as the daughter of a guilty minister, or is it actually Princess Huai, you don't want us to see the emperor?"

A concubine yelled at Su Jingqing directly.

Su Jingqing glanced at the other party. Coincidentally, this father boarded the Zhang family's boat.

No wonder, he is very courageous and looks very confident.

Su Jingqing didn't want to explain anything, but said: "You just take it as what I mean, I can stop you from meeting people today, and I can blow the wind around King Huai's pillow in the future."

"My ladies and gentlemen, I will let you know what you should know, and you don't need to inquire about what you shouldn't, just go back first."

Because of Su Jingqing's words, many people turned pale on the spot.

The concubine, who was shouting at Su Jingqing in the early stage, didn't hold back, and the fear was directly on her face.

In the end, it was Concubine De who came out to smooth things over, "Since it's the emperor's order, let's listen to it. The emperor is blessed and blessed, and will be fine."

The concubine who had a good relationship with Concubine De also helped to speak and persuade people to go back.

Su Jingqing moved a few steps to the side, and said a few words to Concubine De alone, "Concubine De is smart, she knows that my prince is a kind-hearted person, as long as you ladies keep yourselves, no matter what happens, the prince will leave a way for everyone to survive .But what if..."

Without finishing her words, Concubine De understood that if she was restless, Duke Huai would never be lenient in killing people.

Concubine De thanked her and led the palace servants away.

Aside from other things, just because Duke Huai was willing to let her son go out of the palace to calm the chaos, she firmly stood by Duke Huai's side and could not let the people in the harem add chaos to Duke Huai.

Su Jingqing mentioned Concubine De, and the concubines also went back to their respective palaces, so he clapped his hands and turned to look for Xiao Beihuai.

Xiao Beihuai's side was much more troublesome than his here, the ministers were not easy to deal with, he could talk, and he was very good at labeling others, Xiao Beihuai didn't finish a sentence, but the questioner over there had already said ten sentences.

He simply stopped talking from the back, and just looked at them coldly. It didn't take long for them to shut their mouths, because it was hard to talk to themselves.

"Enough said?"

When Su Jingqing arrived, Xiao Beihuai happened to ask this question.

Su Jingqing came over and asked him, "They won't listen?"

This is good, a group of officials found an opening again, and immediately yelled: "Princess Huai, what does this mean? What do you mean I won't listen, it's clear that Duke Huai has some intentions to prevent me from going to see the emperor..."

Su Jingqing's eyelids twitched when he heard it, his eyebrows raised, and he interrupted the other party in displeasure, "My lord really has some intentions, this lord may not be able to speak again."

"We all know who has ulterior motives. We don't need to put on airs here. Of course, if you insist on resisting the decree, then the prince and this princess will have no choice but to fulfill your lordship."

Xiao Beihuai cooperatively raised the imperial decree and asked, "Do you want to open it and have a look?"

"Since Duke Huai dared to present the imperial decree, I will naturally dare to look at it. The emperor is critically ill. His Highness Duke Huai and the concubine did not feel sad at all. Instead, they wholeheartedly prevented me from visiting the emperor. Could it be that they want to seize the opportunity to seize power?"

This point was grasped well, and he got a lot of support in an instant, and even started to label Xiao Beihuai as a poisoner.

They talked vigorously, Xiao Beihuai and Su Jingqing listened for a while, and when these people asked them what else to say, Xiao Beihuai smiled slowly, and stared sharply at the person who said he poisoned Official, "When did this king say that his father's critical illness was caused by poisoning?"

"Master Gao knows more than this king."

It was only said that he was suddenly critically ill and his life was hanging by a thread, but he never said it was because of poisoning.

If you don't beat yourself up like this, and don't scold yourself for being stupid, you are sorry for Mr. Gao's useless brain.

"How could it be possible, what I heard clearly was poisoning," Mr. Gao, who was named by Xiao Beihuai, hurriedly looked at the others, but the colleagues who had just "fighted side by side" averted their eyes.

His heart went straight to the ground, and he thought carefully about what he had heard. Indeed, no one mentioned that the emperor was poisoned. From the beginning to the end, there was only the word critically ill.

The others were anxious to disassociate themselves from him, but he still had to think of a way to refute himself, "Your official... Maybe I heard it wrong, but I was just guessing. The emperor was fine yesterday morning, but he was suddenly critically ill. The official thought that someone wanted to poison the emperor."

"Really?" Xiao Beihuai answered the words, neither believing nor disbelief.

But with such a small episode, the confidence of those who had just conclusively labeled Xiao Beihuai dropped by half.

Xiao Beihuai continued to refute their words of seizing power, "What does the king want and the emperor refuses to give, do you think this king will use such methods that harm others and benefit himself if he wants to seize power?"

"You are stupid, don't drag me into the water."

A group of people turned ugly because of Xiao Beihuai's words.

At this time, Zhang Xiru stood up, "His Royal Highness Huai Wang, all the adults are also worried about the emperor, please tell the subordinate officials what is going on with the emperor, there are still many important matters waiting for the emperor to decide, the civil and military affairs of the entire court need the emperor..."

Xiao Beihuai interrupted him, "Since everything has to be decided by the emperor, what do you want to do? Receive the imperial salary to support the family, and then turn around and label this king as a father-killer?"

"If you can't do it well, don't do it. It's not that Dayong can't find capable people, and it's not that the imperial court insists on you!"

As soon as Zhang Xiru stretched out his foot to test it, Xiao Beihuai refuted it back. Zhang Xiru's face changed slightly, and his eyes were stained with cruelty. This King Huai, how come he is not dead yet!

Xiao Beihuai threw the edict to the eunuch who came out together, and ordered: "Read it to them."

The eunuchs are the people who serve the emperor. Those who can read will read the holy decree.

Hearing the imperial decree calling Duke Huai the crown prince and asking him to supervise the country, the faces of these ministers turned green and pale, which was very interesting.

The most important thing is that things are completely different from what they imagined.

The attitude of Duke Huai and his wife made them unable to tell whether the emperor was poisoned or not. They were both afraid that the emperor was not poisoned, and worried that the emperor was poisoned. Duke Huai really didn't care at all.

Either way, things are difficult.

Everyone pondered in their hearts, and after the imperial decree was proclaimed, Xiao Beihuai also directly issued an order, "My lords, remember to be careful in doing things, otherwise, if something goes wrong, this king will not be lenient."

It is both an order and a blatant threat.

A group of people didn't dare to say anything, they could only nod their heads and say yes, Xiao Beihuai drove them away, so he couldn't hold back.

Only Xu Ge stayed behind, and asked Xiao Beihuai a few more words, "Please also tell me, what is the situation with the Emperor?"

Xiao Beihuai said: "It's good that Mr. Ge does what the princess told me to do."

Elder Xu Ge didn't ask anything, and finally left disappointed.

When he got out of the palace gate, there was still a group of people waiting for him to ask about the situation.

"I don't know, but His Royal Highness Huai Wang refuses to say so, as long as all colleagues do their jobs well."

After finishing speaking, he pushed aside the crowd and left, not all the way, and there was no need to say too much.

There was no question here, someone got anxious and approached Zhang Xiru, "Mr. Ge, what should we do now?"

Zhang Xiru muffled his head and did not speak. At this point, he no longer needed to hide. The plan had changed, and he could no longer exchange the antidote for the people who were arrested from Quzhou and went to Kyoto.

After walking forward for a long time, Zhang Xiru said: "Kill it."

"Ah?" The officials beside him didn't understand for a while.

Zhang Xiru didn't answer him, turned around and got into the carriage, and when he got home, someone called his son, "Kill those people who came from Quzhou, and they won't be able to go to the capital."

His son was also puzzled, "Father, why did you do this? It's all the Zhang family."

"Because of a bad move, I lost again."

He sighed heavily, "The Son of Heaven is not poisoned."

"Isn't it..." The son wanted to say that he said it was safe, why didn't it work.

Zhang Xiru didn't even think about it himself, the poison was administered so secretly, and they were administered separately, why the emperor was fine.

There are two types of poison, half on the incense and half on the spoon.

Inhaling the poisonous incense, and then touching a spoon that has been soaked in the poison for a day and night, the poison will penetrate into the bones and blood, and the antidote cannot be cured.

It was specially made for people to do, and it was enough for two times in total, he counted once for the emperor and once for Duke Huai, but the emperor failed this time.

It's a pity that he arranged to serve the imperial dining room and the emperor.

"If this plan fails, what should we do next?" The son looked worried.

Ever since Duke Huai freed up his hands to deal with them, they have been retreating steadily and everything is not going well.

"Otherwise, my son will order people to raid Duke Huai's mansion at night, and directly burn down Duke Huai's mansion with a torch?"

Zhang Xiru laughed after hearing this, "If you dig the imperial tomb, King Huai can dig the Zhang family's ancestral grave, but if you burn down Huai Prince's mansion, will he not move the Zhang family?"

"This doesn't work and that doesn't work, so what should I do?" The son was also annoyed.

Zhang Xiru took a deep breath, after all he didn't scold his son for being stupid, it was because the descendants of the Zhang family didn't live up to expectations, otherwise why would he bother planning so much.

"Didn't Duke Huai want to supervise the country? Then let the people of the world see who is more important, his own life or the lives of the people in Manjing."

Zhang Xiru's eyes are full of evil, Huai Wang loves the people like a son, so he should know how to choose.

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