Chapter 2263 Light Gate Lintel 63
Continuing to move forward, Xining still had doubts in his heart. After all, there was no information from the palace in the body owner's memory.
Then ask this kid Zhao Kang: "What is the relationship between the Queen and the Queen Mother?"
Zhao Kang answered truthfully: "The queen and the queen mother have the same surname as Wang, and they are both Runan Wang surnames."
Xining frowned slightly, and Zhao Kang saw it: "Is there anything wrong?"
"No, let's go!" Xining fooled him.
It's wrong, of course it's very wrong. The queen mother is the biological sister of the former empress, so the queen mother will rest assured that the second prince will be raised by the queen. At present, there are only two daughters, and the sons she gave birth to have died and are no longer fertile.
If the Queen Mother was concerned about her daughter-in-law, she would definitely ask her to go to her successor to check her pulse, but the Queen Mother did not.
That proves that it is enough to have a second prince, and there is no need for a son of his own to succeed him. As for how the successor son died and who was the mastermind, it is terrifying to think about it.
Just now, Zhao Kang said that the second prince always said the wrong things and spent the whole day fighting, which proved that Liu Adou was unable to support him. If the second prince is a clumsy person, then it's easy to say. If it's true... the queen mother just wants a second prince who can't do anything, so that the power can fall into her or her family's hands in the future.
The lackluster imperial brother also increased the ambitions of the third prince and Concubine Zheng De, and they were bound to become two factions that would fight to the death.
If the second prince fails in the fight, the Queen Mother will never let the third prince go. And she also has an advantage, that is, she is still alive and deferred as the third heir Zhao Kang. Zhao Kang's mother died when he was young, and he was brought up from infancy, so he must have been intimate with the Queen Mother. Seeing that the Queen Mother had raised him since childhood and protected him, if Zhao Kang inherited the throne, he would definitely take care of the Wang family in Runan, so that the Wang family's wealth could be continued.
After all, she was the champion of the last palace fight. Compared with the queen, the chess game set by the queen mother was double guaranteed, and the success rate was greatly enhanced.
"Little Junior Sister, are you okay with saluting?" The more Zhao Kang thought about it, the more something was wrong.
Xining answered simply: "No!"
Uh, Zhao Kang was stunned. He stopped and looked sideways at her, shocked.
No wonder the ancient rituals are performed just to fool the past. This is too courageous. If you don't just kneel down and kowtow, what will you do if you get betrayed?
He thought for a moment and pointed at a palace maid who happened to be passing by in the distance: "You, come here!"
The palace maid didn't know what was going on, but when the Eleventh Prince called her, she could only lower her head and walk over with small steps. He walked up to him and made a sideways salute: "I have seen His Highness."
Zhao Kang saw something wrong at first glance: "Kneel down and salute."
The palace maid was so frightened that she thought she had been negligent or that something big was going to happen. She knelt down and said, "I have seen Your Highness."
The sound of his knees hitting the stone slabs on the ground was painful.
Xi Ning's teeth hurt when he saw it. What's this?
Zhao Kang saw that something was not right: "A big salute."
This frightened the palace maid so much that she trembled all over.
"Okay, don't scare people." Xining explained: "This is my first time entering the palace. His Highness was afraid that I would not understand the rules, so he asked his sister to come over and give him a big gift as a reference. Sister, don't be afraid."
After hearing this, the palace maid breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and bowed slowly from beginning to end.
Xining looked carefully, called Wu Jue over, opened the medicine box, and took out a bottle of medicine. "Thank you, sister. This is a medicinal wine for bruises. To avoid suspicion, there is no musk, saffron or the like in it. You can go to the imperial doctor to see if it is genuine. Dip a little cotton into the skin every day and rub it red and hot. No bruises will appear. It will subside in a few days." She handed the maid the five-tael silver note.
The palace maid did not expect to get the medicine and money, so she quickly accepted it, hid it in her sleeve, and left at Zhao Kang's signal.
When they arrived at Changle Palace, the eunuch in charge knew that Zhao Kang was here at the request of the Queen Mother, so he invited the two of them in. Wu was not allowed to enter, so he gave her the medicine box.
There are charcoal basins and lamps lit everywhere in the hall. The main reason is that the hall is very big and it would be too dark without lights.
Walking to the inner hall, a middle-aged man in his forties wearing a green robe with five long beards was sitting in front of the dragon table to review the memorial. He must be the emperor of the dynasty.
Zhao Kang saluted: "I pay my respects to my father."
Looking sideways, he saw, well, it was still an ancient ritual of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Could it be that when he saw the emperor, he was frightened and forgot everything he had just learned?
"Long live my emperor!" Xi Ning knelt down and saluted calmly, scolding Zhao Kang ten thousand times in his heart. When I came to this level, I had never knelt down before today. Today I have knelt down twice.
Of course Zhao Kang didn't know this and was thinking about other things. Then I thought about it, I knelt down to see the Queen Mother and used ancient rituals, but didn't use them when seeing the Emperor, which caused criticism. Well, I should do the ancient ritual this time!
He said respectfully: "I heard that the emperor's grandmother was unwell, so I went to look for the Xuanhumen. As a result, I encountered an accident on the way. Fortunately, I met the only descendant of the Xuanhumen, and I saved my life."
"I heard that Kang'er has worked hard. He is considered lucky to be able to turn the crisis into safety." The emperor looked at the memorial without even raising his head: "How do you see the Queen Mother?"
Xining knelt there and bowed: "The Queen Mother's blessings are endless. She did have a slight illness before, but fortunately the doctors in the palace have superb medical skills and have been carefully nursed back to health. She is no longer affected."
The emperor picked up the cinnabar pen and made annotations quickly, then raised his head and looked over: "I didn't expect you to be so young. I heard that Xuanhumen encountered an accident before. I don't know what the reason was?"
The words sounded like a surprise, but there was no surprise in his expression. It seemed that he already knew what was going on.
Xining replied: "I don't know the reason, but my uncle said before he died that it was because he didn't charge for medical treatment."
Zhao Kang's eyes widened. At this time, he also said that Xuanhumen was destroyed because he didn't charge for medical treatment. The junior sister was really big-hearted. Ordinary people would have cried a lot and complained in tears.
The emperor longed: "What do you think?"
Xi Ning's face was expressionless: "Since it was my uncle's last words before he died, that's the reason." Anyway, he insisted that it was this, you can't ask the dead. Could it be that you are satisfied if you say that your good son is planning to kill you and ascend to the throne?
After saying this, I can bet a dollar that the Third Prince will be fine, and he will only curse a few times. Because the third prince would cry out for injustice and refuse to admit it. Then, after the emperor hammered it, he would drink wine as usual, eat meat as usual tomorrow, continue to plan the murder of his father and king, and continue to deal with his own brothers.
And my sister is about to be in bad luck. She is waiting to be found guilty of falsely accusing the prince. Either she will be beheaded at the market entrance, or she will be dragged outside the door and killed with a stick.
The emperor was silent, his expression dark and unclear, and he didn't know what he was thinking. Most people would be so frightened that they would sweat. Xining just knelt down, looking at the ground in front of him, looking at the polished floor tiles, and waited quietly.
After a while, the emperor finally spoke: "Then why is Zhao Kang injured?"
Xining secretly rolled his eyes and sent another proposition! Can you please stop asking? I just came here to take my pulse and go through the motions.
"Dad..." Zhao Kang was interrupted just as he started to speak.
The emperor looked deeply at the little girl kneeling in front of him, and said without anger: "I didn't ask you, I asked her!"
(End of chapter)