NOVEL NEXT Chapter 832 - take responsibility
The hall is quiet and the fragrance of flowers is faint.
Xia Chu and Xiao Mubai both had embarrassed expressions on their faces, and the atmosphere was a bit unspeakably depressed for a while, which made Xia Chu feel a little uncomfortable breathing.
“Your Majesty, you just woke up, why don’t you have a cup of tea?” Xia Chu bit the bullet and broke the eerie atmosphere.
Seeing that he did not refute, Pi Dian Dian got up and went to the outer hall to prepare tea.
He will not mix the grievances and grievances between the father and son. After all, the emperor is reluctant to bear Xiao Mubai, but don’t bring disaster to his innocent pond fish.
Xiao Mubai kept pursing his thin lips, until Xia Chu left the hall, and his expression became cold again.
“Concubine Li once said that the poison on my son’s body was brought down by the emperor himself.”
The coercion that the emperor had been brimming with anger suddenly subsided, and the sharp light gradually faded from his eyes. Instead, he showed an indescribably complicated look.
“My original intention back then was not to poison you.”
There was a strong reminiscence on the emperor’s face, and his usually heavy and majestic voice became very emotional: “When you mention this, it will bring out an old incident many years ago…”
When Xia Chu, who was still preparing to cook tea outside, heard this, he immediately walked in with a cup of herbal tea.
Seeing that he was serving tea, the emperor raised his eyes and glanced at him: “It really has something to do with Lan Yuying’s mother.”
The emperor took the tea cup, touched the cold cup, and glanced at Xia Chu again with dissatisfied eyes, but saw that he had already sat cross-legged on the edge of the couch, with his hands slender, looking at him impatiently for a moment: “Emperor, the third year of the year. You said at ten that you wanted to tell me the whole story.”
The emperor’s eyes swept across Xiao Mubai, who was still standing upright: “You can sit too.”
Xiao Mubai stood there, with a bit of stubbornness on his face. Xia Chu pulled his robes, turned around and sat down on the nearby chair.
“When Su Yin traveled all the way to Xiao Guo to be with her, I originally wanted to grant her the position of queen, but she was blocked by the queen mother. In desperation, I had to make her a concubine, and I was very kind to her. Not long after she became pregnant, she was born. When you were a baby boy, you made both Zhen and Tian Yong happy.”
The emperor’s eyes fell on Xiao Mubai’s face, recalling the moment when he fell to the ground.
Xiao Mubai listened to him mentioning the taboos of his mother’s concubine and Liang Wang’s names, and also listened very seriously.
“But not long after you were born, your body became weaker and weaker. You were diagnosed with congenital insufficiency by the imperial physician. Not to mention that you will become the world leader in the future, it is impossible to practice martial arts. Useless person.” The emperor retracted his gaze and took a sip of tea.
The tea was already cold, and a line of ice cold went down his throat, piercing his chest, a kind of bitterness.
“I only found out after a strict examination of the Tai Hospital that you are not born with insufficiency, but were harmed by others after you were born. I have always loved Su Yin, and your birth has made her more and more outstanding in the harem. This is a unique gift. The favor of you, involves you being harmed by others.”
When Xia Chu heard this, he snorted: “According to the emperor’s love for Concubine Qi and the importance he attached to Mu Bai, the food and clothing of Yongxin Palace must be very cautious, otherwise Concubine Qi would not be able to give birth to the emperor safely. Si, how did you harm Mu Bai?”
The emperor sighed softly: “After Su Yin gave birth to Mu Bai, there was a lack of breast milk, so she had to find a wet nurse to feed her. I also found out afterwards that the wet nurse was secretly taking other things besides the food in the pantry.”
Xia Chu was familiar with medical books, and instantly thought that many things would be detrimental to the baby’s development. If it was deliberately done, the milk after taking it for a long time would definitely cause great damage to Xiao Mubai’s body.
He raised his eyes to look at Xiao Mubai, and when he saw him bowing his head to comfort him, his heart became more and more distressed.
“Although I checked in time and executed the nanny, and no one who recommended her to the palace was spared the execution, your body is still too weak. I ordered this matter to be blocked, but I have been searching for it. There are ways to keep fit for you.”
Although the emperor did not clearly say who was behind the scenes, it is conceivable that it was also due to the competition for favor in the harem.
Xiao Mubai and Xia Chu looked at each other and became more and more unwilling to stay in this deep palace for the rest of their lives.
“I dare not tell Tianyong about this. The child who has been given infinite hope by us. If he can’t even hold a sword in the future, how is he different from a cripple? How can he rule the world? Therefore, I will go out of the palace in small clothes once a year. Visit famous doctors in the world.”
The emperor paused and looked at Xia Chu: “I met Lan Yuying’s mother when Mu Bai was three years old, on the way back to Beijing from the palace.”
Xia Chu’s eyes lit up, and he suddenly felt that the chaotic thoughts in his mind seemed to be gradually connected.
“A glimpse of the world will make it unforgettable.” There was a swaying thought in the emperor’s eyes: “Although I have always been fond of Su Yin, I can ask myself, and when I met A Li, I let me know what love is.”
Xiao Mubai heard dissatisfaction in his eyes, and said coldly: “What is the mother and concubine of the minister there? Is it a tool used to give birth to a baby boy from Xiao and Liang?”
The thought in the emperor’s eyes faded, and then he looked back at Xiao Mubai with squinted eyes: “I have never treated Su Yin harshly over the years.”
From the corner of Xiao Mubai’s vision, he saw Xia Chu shaking his head slightly at him, and he knew in his heart that, over the years, the emperor not only did not treat Concubine Qi harshly, but rather favored him.
Even after the incident of Pang Weiguang, the two left their hearts, but the emperor’s reward to Concubine Qi has never been interrupted.
The women in the harem, who can really get the heart of the emperor, are nothing more than tools that are sent into the palace to restrain each other in order to balance the power.
For them, it doesn’t matter where the emperor’s heart is, the constant reward is the emperor’s attitude, and it is also the basis for them to stand up.
“For my own selfishness, I arrested the entire family of the Miao family, and later…”
Before the emperor finished speaking, Xia Chu suddenly interrupted: “Your Majesty, what I want to know is the truth.”
The emperor’s pupils shrank slightly, and Xia Chu then continued: “It wasn’t the emperor who arrested the Miao family back then, but now the queen mother has long since passed away, and she doesn’t want to be held accountable. Take it all on yourself.”
The emperor looked at Xia Chu’s eyes sharply: “Where did you find out?”
Xia Chu squeezed his brows. He suddenly thought about the things that were connected in series just now, and his thoughts became clearer and clearer: “The people in the Miao family incense shop are not dead.”
The sternness in the emperor’s eyes increased instead of diminishing: “Miao Lin doesn’t know who caught him, don’t tell me, it was Lan Yuying’s father who told you.”
The emperor’s answer more and more verified Xia Chu’s speculation that Miao Lin should be Lan Xilin’s real name, and Miao Lin could not have been rescued by Concubine Li.
Otherwise, according to Concubine Li’s temperament, it would be impossible for him to take Lan Yuying safely and hide from Zilan Mountain, and live unrestrainedly and unrestrainedly for all these years.
Lan Xilin could leave the palace alive, only because the emperor let him go…