Chapter 72: The Elder

Hearing the Queen Mother’s question, Eunuch Zhang bent down slightly and said slowly: "Reporting to the Queen Mother, she seems to be a person who knows the rules. She didn't go anywhere else. She took the things and left the palace. The people below followed him to the palace gate and watched him get on the carriage. They should have gone back to the Lin Mansion directly..."

"Oh..." The Empress Dowager responded without comment, and did not speak for a long time.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager had no other words, Zhang Ruhai turned around and waved to the outside. Immediately, several palace maids came in and wiped the ground and the desk again quietly. When the palace maids retreated, the empress dowager sighed again: "This time I feel wronged this child..."

Zhang Ruhai whispered: "The Empress Dowager is compassionate and sympathetic to the people below, but if the old slave says that this matter is over, it will not be a grievance. He is just a servant, so the Empress Dowager doesn't need to take it too seriously..."

"That's the same. But we don't take it seriously by a companionship position." The empress dowager rubbed her forehead and continued, "It's still a bit far-fetched to let her go with excuses. We know what's going on, but the child doesn't know, and she feels very wronged." Speaking of this, the empress dowager turned a little cold and her tone became low: "But the Ai family has nothing to do. Although the matter is small, it can't be careless when it comes to her. Although the Ai family is in charge of the harem and is the empress dowager, they still have to act according to their expressions... This child is not

I know that he was wronged, but he did not suffer this grievance, and the Ai family would have to bear it. If the Ai family did not, he would have to let the emperor suffer in the end. The emperor's affairs were already too much and annoying. The Ai family couldn't help much elsewhere, so he had to think about it for him in these small places and block it... The emperor wanted to do big things. At this time, there would be no more twists and turns in the backyard. No matter what troubles there were, he had to wait for the emperor's major affairs to be decided. Alas... After all, he is the son of the Ai family. If the Ai family doesn't help the sharing, who else can help the sharing?"

Zhang Ruhai had already knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing: "Empress Dowager, it's all the old slaves useless, it's all the old slaves useless! I don't say that I'm useless, but I'm really unable to help a single finger when I see the emperor and the queen mother suffer this great humiliation! All the old slaves are useless! Don't be angry, if you hurt your body, you will be able to give up this blame even if you die!"

The Empress Dowager raised her eyebrows and said to Zhang Ruhai: "Okay! It's not your business. She's not young anymore. Don't always kneel down, get up!" After pausing for a while, the Empress Dowager asked again: "I guess you've got the letter there at this time, right? I don't know if they are satisfied with this result..."

Zhang Ruhai said: "The Empress Dowager is telling a joke. The old slave risked his life to say something bad. The Empress Dowager is finding an excuse to vent her anger, that is, she gave her a huge face. She held her and offered her a gift, so how could she be satisfied or not?" Zhang Ruhai did not dare to say the following words. If the Empress Dowager is still dissatisfied with such a great face, she would be shameless and would not want to live...

The empress dowager heard this and smiled bitterly: "Forget it, no matter what, this matter will be over. But the Ai family gave the face here and it was hard to refute the face there. After all, the people behind them were also working for the emperor. Even if they wanted to hide the news in the palace, they couldn't hide it. After all, it was spread. The Fang family had a face, but the Lin family might be disappointed."

Zhang Ruhai said again: "The Empress Dowager is probably thinking too much. The Lin family is not stupid. Seeing the actions of holding up high but actually falling down gently, I believe the Lin family will understand it sooner or later."

"Well..." The Empress Dowager nodded when she heard this. "If others don't say it, Concubine Lin is a person who can understand the general, and her heart is also open... Forget it, please invite her to come and talk to Ai's family tomorrow. The Ai family doesn't want to see anyone for the time being..."

"Yes, I'm just sending the words to you."

West Warm Pavilion.

Emperor Qiyuan leaned against the warm couch and was looking at the note. Suddenly, footsteps outside were heard, and the inner door was opened, revealing a face full of resentment. Emperor Qiyuan's face first showed anger and looked at the person coming in and said sternly: "I broke in without even knocking on the door, and it became increasingly unruly!"

"Father...Father..." The visitor opened his mouth to speak, but he was obviously excited and could not continue talking.

Emperor Qiyuan looked at it calmly. The person who came was red in his eyes, his clothes were wrinkled, and he didn't know where he was rubbing gray, and he looked very embarrassed. Emperor Qiyuan couldn't help but be stunned: "Mingde, what are you doing? Why did you do this?" As he said that, he looked at the eunuch who was panicking behind Mingde, and waved his hand impatiently: "Okay, okay, it's all for you, go out!" The two eunuchs retreated and reached out to pull the inner door up.

In the West Warehouse, there was only father and son left for a moment.

Mingde lowered his head and didn't say anything for a long time. Emperor Qiyuan looked at his son with great interest and asked with a smile: "What's wrong? His eyes are red. Could it be that he has cried?"

"No!" Mingde replied firmly: "I was blowing outside just now, and the sand squinted his eyes."

"Oh." Emperor Qiyuan was amused: "I just said that, how could Mingde, who has always been strong and brave, cry?" Emperor Qiyuan got on the warm couch and turned around and threw Mingde a warm mat: "Sit down and talk! Suddenly, I came to find me in such a hurry, I'm afraid it's not just because I think of me, right?"

"Father...Father!" Mingde took the warm pad but did not sit down, and said hurriedly: "The emperor's grandmother...sen minister...sen minister...ah! The emperor's grandmother...sen grandmother...sen minister...sen minister...sen minister's companion was driven out of the palace!"

"Oh?" Emperor Qi Yuan was not surprised when he heard this. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Mingde: "Have you driven out of the palace? Is that Lin Nan?"

"Um!"

"Oh. For what? Why did you drive out of the palace?"

Emperor Qi Yuan's voice sounded like an inquiry, but the voice was heavy. It fell into Mingde's ears, as if his father was standing on his side. His breath suddenly became heavy, and his answer was straightforward: "Just for leaving the palace!"

Emperor Qiyuan still spoke tepidly: "Oh? After leaving the palace, who went out of the palace?"

"Yes... it's my son who went out of the palace." Mingde was not afraid. He left the palace for no reason once or twice. When his father found out, he was just scolding him.

"You! Bastard!" Emperor Qi Yuan pointed Mingde's head, but his voice didn't sound like he was angry: "The underage prince is strictly prohibited from leaving the palace. Do you know that this is the palace system?"

"My son knows..."

"I know...hum! Do you really know?" Emperor Qi Yuan glared at his son with his eyes slanted: "If you really know, who is the little Little Sixteen who left the palace for ten days and half a month? Could it be me?"

"Father, I know I'm wrong!" Mingde was a little anxious when he saw his father making a fuss in the east and west. He didn't know that the father in front of him seemed to be very free and interested today. Then he asked again: "Where did you go out again this time? I'm afraid you didn't go out alone, right?"

"Uh..." Mingde hesitated for this question, secretly raised his eyes and glanced quickly, but found that his father stared at him without blinking, with a certain meaning worthy of fun. Mingde's heart trembled and he couldn't help but answer: "No, it's not... the son-in-law and Ning He, Ning Xin went together..." There were only a few words, but Mingde's voice became lower and lower, and finally it was indescribable.

As soon as he said that, Mingde knew that he was finished. Just leaving the palace by himself, the father might turn a blind eye and pass by. But this time, he brought his two sisters to cause trouble, even if the father has always been tolerant, he may not be able to get along well.

Emperor Qiyuan didn't speak for a long time, and the air in the West Warehouse became very depressing for a moment. Mingde knelt on the ground with a thud: "Father, my son really knows that he is wrong, I just want my father... I ask my father..."

"Do you know what's wrong? What's wrong?" Emperor Qi Yuan's voice was no longer so soft, and began to become serious. "Hmph! I wasted my studies all day long, and I knew that I would travel around. Is the sixteenth prince of the Great Jian Dynasty doing this? Hum?" Hearing the father's lesson, Mingde did not dare to respond, and just knelt on the ground and lowered his head to listen to the excuse. Emperor Qi Yuan said again: "I remember that the last thing was not over yet? I remember that the emperor's grandmother banned your feet last time, and it seemed that the deadline had not expired. Why, I couldn't hold it in anymore? I was disrespectful and had no rules! I also became bolder. Not only did I go out alone, but I dared to bring Ning He and Ning Xin with me. If I don't give you some color, I'm afraid you will be able to make a bigger mess next time!"

"How did the Queen Mother punish you?"

"I went back to my father, I was beaten and I still had to be confined. I don't know if I would be fined for the month..."

"What, what if you punish me for the month?" Emperor Qiyuan said coldly: "I think you are still beaten lightly! If I were on the spot, I would never let you go so easily!" After a while, Emperor Qiyuan's voice slowed down and asked, "You are here to come to me just to complain, right? What is it for?"

Mingde straightened up and whispered, "My son...My son wants his father to help, beg for the emperor and grandmother, don't...Don't let Xiaolinzi leave the palace..."

Emperor Qi Yuan burst out laughing when he heard this, and looked at the son in front of him and shook his head helplessly. "Just for this?"

"Um."

Alas! Emperor Qiyuan sighed in his heart. "I know you are different to Lin Nan from others, but that was the imperial edict issued by the Empress Dowager. The water splashed out from the words he said cannot be taken back." Emperor Qiyuan looked at Mingde and said softly: "And I don't want her to take back the edict."

"Ah?" Mingde was shocked and suspicious when he heard this, looking at his father and didn't know what to say. He only heard Emperor Qiyuan say again: "What's more, you just want to find me in such a way that you are just a companion, and you have to let the dignified Six Palaces take charge of your grandmother and my mother take back the decree that has become a fact?" Pa! Emperor Qiyuan raised his hand and slapped Mingde!
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