Chapter 65 Guilty
Mi Xuan betrayed him and if Mi Xuan was handed over to Zuo Yin's house for punishment, he would not be willing to let go; but if Mi Xuan was not punished, he would have nowhere to vent his anger. Nao Xin reported that Gongsun Yan's maid admired Mi Xuan's beauty, so he entered the palace where Mi Xuan lived and heard the conversation between Mi Xuan and his father. Xiong Jing didn't want to listen carefully. He only knew one thing: Mi Ren brought poison from Qin, and Mi Xuan took over the poison Mi Ren gave her.
Maybe Mi Xuan could not disobey her father's intentions and had to take over; maybe Mi Xuan really wanted to save the entire Mi clan and wanted to kill herself. If it were the former, why didn't she tell her and kept it to this day?
The boring machine is driven by a steam engine and scrapes the inner diameter of the cannon during rotation. Although it is a steel cannon, it is even more difficult to quench large pieces because it is difficult to quench large pieces, and it will be even more difficult to quench them. If the fire is improper, there will be stress residues. The gun body with stress is not durable and can easily be cracked and exploded. Ju Tiefu has been exploring the tricks of gun body quenching and fire, and it took several years of experiments to master some experience.
Of course, the artillery given to Qin is something that does not rekindle or remove stress. At the same time, the power of gunpowder will be greatly reduced, and its power is only twice as high as a charge, but the weight of gunpowder increases by one third, which prevents the Qin army from making gunpowder into grenades. As for using these gunpowder to explode the city, it is obvious that it is too much to think about it. Blasting the city is a technology, and it cannot be blasted by drilling a hole, and it must be properly sealed. Without technical guidance, the Qin army could figure out how to explode the city, and when it was discovered, the gunpowder would be used up.
There are always many ways for experts to bully outsiders. As for the untrustworthy words that Nao Xin said, what kind of trust is there when the Qin people threatened Mi? Thinking of this, Xiong Jing took a deep breath and felt that all this was his fault: it was because he did not protect Mi Xuan, which forced her to accept the poison given by Mi Ren. What if her father forced her to give it to her, what if she couldn't bear it? Now if Mi Ren, Mi Wu and others are replaced, there will be no such thing in the future.
"King..." Chang Jiang walked over and looked at Xiong Jing with his eyebrows down.
"What's the matter?" Xiong Jing glanced at him and knew what he was going to say.
"The Queen invites the King to Lanhua Palace, I don't know the King..." Chang Jiang is Xiong Jing's official servant, but he doesn't know what happened between Xiong Jing and Mi Xuan. He only knows that the King is suddenly cold to the Queen and has never been to Lanhua Palace once after returning to Ying for several days.
He was like this, and the others in the palace were puzzled. In addition to greeting the queen mother, the king returned to the palace, and once he left Ruoying Palace, he went to Lanhua Palace, and then the queen's clothes were torn to pieces. This incident came from Siyi and became a semi-public secret in the palace. However, this time it was different. This time the king returned to the palace and only went to Ruoying Palace to greet the queen mother mother, but Lanhua Palace did not go to at all.
It used to be like lacquer, but now it is ignored. Some people in the palace speculate. Some people say that the queen is out of favor, but the queen is out of favor, and no one else is favored; some people guess that Zhao State moved south and Hanzhong was not defeated, and the king was worried about national affairs, but this makes no sense. The state of Chu State was stronger day by day. Although Zhao State moved south, the Chu army was attacking Hanzhong. If the Ba people had not tried their best to help, they would have fought to Chencang and Yongcheng long ago.
Among the gossips, in addition to Mi Xuan, there was another person in the palace who was unwilling to eat and restless, that was Ying Nan. Mi Xuan was out of favor, so she naturally might be favored. However, Xiong Jing did not go to see Mi Xuan, nor did she give her a color, which made her worried about gains and losses.
"Auntie..." In Ruoying's palace, Ying Nan, who was dozing off on the seat, looked at the Empress Dowager Zhao who woke her, wanted to explain but didn't know how to explain.
"No need to say too much." Concubine Zhao knew what her niece was worried about. She was puzzled by Xiong Jing's return to the palace this time, and she didn't understand until now. "A close servant said that the king had once and..."
"What?" Ying Nan was excited and everything related to Xiong Jing was stimulant.
"Oh!" Concubine Zhao sighed, "As for the recent servant, I said, during Daliang, that Jianzhang had been alone with the king."
"Ah?!" Ying Nan looked at Zhao Fei in disbelief. Jian Chang was the Queen Mother Zhao Linghui. As a soldier, Zhao Fei Ying Nan despised her. Linghui relied on her to lure her father to become the Queen of Zhao, and now she has lureed the King.
"The king is old, and I will no longer obey my mother and queen in everything." Concubine Zhao was very unhappy when her son was charmed by a person she looked down upon. Mi Xuan was born as a girl, and in Qin State, she was actually the same as the princess of Qin State because she was favored by the Empress Dowager Mi Ji of Huayang.
After that, the emperor was just an advocate for excellence, and all nobles could favor him. Concubine Zhao was very unhappy for such a dirty person to charm her son. In addition, Linghui was the Empress Dowager Zhao after all. After all, she was the Empress Dowager Zhao. If she had a slutty relationship with her son, she would become a laughing stock again when she passed on to the mother country of the world.
"You, why don't you know that the king is happy?" After Zhao Fei was angry with her son, she blamed her niece again.
After being told by Concubine Zhao, Ying Nan was also full of grievance. She had already worked very hard to please the king, but it was useless. "Please forgive me for your crime." She paused her head and bowed.
"What's the use of my aunt's sin? Xu Wuan Gong..." Concubine Zhao sighed, and she ordered to her left and right: "Go and tell the king. When dinner arrives at Ruoying Palace, the old woman tells me something."
Xiong Jing still didn't go to Lanhua Palace. He didn't want to see Mi Xuan for the time being. He didn't know what to do with Mi Xuan. The people of Ruoying Palace suddenly told Concubine Zhao to go to Ruoying Palace for meals. He agreed without hesitation. But the Queen Mother said that she had something to tell her, and he couldn't help but be suspicious. Could it be that Queen Mother was going to plead for Mi Xuan?
Xiong Jing was thinking about Mi Xuan. When he arrived at Ruoying Palace in the evening, he was about to finish his meal. Concubine Zhao waved her back and started talking. The Zhao people were rarely polite. Concubine Zhao said as soon as she opened her mouth, "My mother heard that the king had been alone with the Empress Dowager of the Mother Kingdom?"
"What's the mother..." Xiong Jing was puzzled, but Concubine Zhao said, "Your Majesty can just answer, right?"
"I was indeed alone." Xiong Jing suddenly laughed, but he didn't expect this to reach the ears of the mother. "However, the child has nothing to do with Empress Zhao."
"It's really nothing?" Zhao Fei asked, staring at Xiong Jing, identifying whether her son was lying.
"It's true." Xiong Jing felt a little guilty. He had indeed been alone with Linghui during the Daliang period, but at that time he was in a manic period. He just touched Linghui a few times and did not go further.
"What about Mi Xuan?" Zhao Fei didn't know if she saw her son's guilt and pretended not to know, or she didn't see it at all.
"Mi Xuan..." Xiong Jing didn't know how to tell him.
"The king risked his life and death to snatch Mi Xuan back from Qin State, and his love was so deep. Now he ignores Mi Xuan again. If he set up a cold palace, why is this?" Zhao Fei asked. "Everyone knows that the king will make Mi Xuan the queen. The wedding is coming, what does the king want?"
At first, Concubine Zhao disagreed. In addition to her wishing her son to make Yingnan the queen, another reason was that Mi Xuan was born too low and was just the daughter of a prince. But now, the Chu State has become the dominant in the world, and the country's family is unwilling to have his son make his son a princess as queen. Marriage is connected with politics, and women from other countries are the queen, the interests must be tilted towards other countries; women from their own country are the queen, especially in the country's family, which has no foundation in the Chu State, so that the country's family will feel at ease.
Now that the matter is about to change, my son is actually charmed by the advocacy.
"The child does nothing." Xiong Jing didn't know what Zhao Fei was thinking, and when she thought of Mi Xuan, she couldn't help but feel a little painful. "The child is just..."
"Just how?" Zhao Fei asked tightly. "Just be so charmed by the queen?"
"There is absolutely nothing." Xiong Jing shook his head. "The boy just doesn't believe in Mi Xuan."
"Don't believe Mi Xuan?" Concubine Zhao wanted to break the pot and ask to the end. "Why don't you believe it?"
"I just don't believe it." Xiong Jing didn't want to know about the matter. He wanted to deal with it himself, otherwise the matter would be confirmed that Mi Xuan would be a death sentence.
"Why don't you believe it?" Zhao Fei saw her son's insistence, and she said: "How can Mi Xuan make the king disbelieve? If he doesn't believe it, why don't he summon him to ask? The king acts quickly and decisively, why did he avoid this time?"
Although Concubine Zhao was old, her eyes began to dim, but her personality remained unchanged. As soon as she said it, Xiong Jing felt that her mother-in-law was like a mother. Gongsun Yan's maid was true or not. Can't you know if it was searched for Lanhua Palace? After searching for poison, Mi Xuan was indeed suspected of poisoning him, so she could be asked by the law official. If the poison was not found, it was the maid who lied, and Mi Xuan had never betrayed him.
Things were that simple, but he just didn't want to face it, afraid of knowing the whole truth of the matter, and then he dragged it to this day. Concubine Zhao's words made him feel ashamed. He was so timid.
"Changjiang!" When leaving Ruoying Palace, Xiong Jing called out Changjiang.
After returning to the palace this time, the man who loved me deeply ignored me and ignored me. He went to invite the maid several times but never saw anyone, just said that he was busy with government affairs. Of course, this is an excuse, but why? Did he fall in love with another woman?
In Lanhua Palace, Mi Xuan was still asleep. Women are sensitive, especially women in love. She noticed Xiong Jing's neglect to herself. This neglect made her think of another song "The Beauty".
"...I saw the new man laughing, but I heard that the old man cried. The water in the mountain spring was clear, and the water in the mountain spring was turbid. The maid sold beads and brought back the radish to repair the hut. I picked flowers without inserting hair, and picked cypresses were full of joy. The green sleeves were cold in the sky, and I leaned against the bamboos at dusk."
"Queen! Queen..." Mi Xuan stroked Sexian and Cui Xiu ran in quickly. "Master, the king is here..."
Xiong Jing did come, but he was calm and led a group of people. Mi Xuan greeted him in the Mingtang. Before he finished saying 'I pay homage to me', Chang Jiang's voice sounded: "Go to the room quickly and search carefully."
The word search made Mi Xuan tremble all over her body. She was frightened and instantly understood what was happening. Under Chang Jiang's order, the temple people immediately rushed to the rooms, and some sleeping maids screamed in fear. Xiong Jing's slightly bitter voice sounded in her ears: "Someone reported that Xuan'er wanted to kill Buying, is that true?"
Chapter completed!