Chapter 567: The Palace Scheme
Someone sent by Jia Yuanchun?!
Sun Shaozong suddenly became completely awake, stood up from the bed, looked at the man suspiciously, but did not say a word.
Logically speaking, after all, their family is related by marriage to the Rongguo Mansion, and Jia Yuanchun did not personally make the transaction privately. She only sent a small eunuch to deliver the message. Although it was a bit inappropriate to come so late at night, it was not a big deal .
But now the emperor has just traced the origin of Prince Yi Zhong through the magical jade. Who knows if he will start to doubt the origin of the jade in Rongguo Mansion?
If this is true, Concubine Xian De is about to fall out of favor. If I have been in private contact with her and someone finds out, wouldn't I be implicated in vain?
It was Jia Baoyu who was too nosy and insisted on passing the news to the palace. If things go wrong, the whole family will be in trouble!
Sun Shaozong had not yet made up his mind about what attitude to adopt towards the people sent by Concubine Xian De, but the young eunuch was already frightened by his glare.
She swallowed awkwardly and said, "My Lord, the Queen has no other intentions. She just wants to find out whether His Majesty has calmed down his wrath? Does he... does he intend to stay in the Palace of Heavenly Purity?"
That's what I wanted to ask.
Sun Shaozong still did not answer. Instead, he pulled out his pocket watch from his lapel, looked at it in the moonlight coming in from outside, and found that it was already two quarters past midnight [ten thirty at night].
This means that I have slept for three hours.
When he left the Qianqing Palace, the emperor must have been in a state of rage, but whether he was happy or angry now probably depended on what news Prince Zhongshun brought back from Prince Yi Zhong's palace.
As for whether he will stay in the Qianqing Palace permanently...
According to Sun Shaozong's judgment, it probably won't happen. After all, after the discovery of the 'Leopard Embryo Yijin Pills', it has been proved that the threat does not come from Jingren Palace.
The most important thing for Emperor Guangde at the moment is to give birth to a son, so it is naturally impossible for him to completely give up the plan of having a son.
Of course, considering the properties of the poison, Emperor Guangde might abstain from desires for a while to make sure there is no residual poison in his body before moving back to Jingren Palace.
"grown ups."
The eunuch saw that Sun Shaozong remained silent after checking the time, and he became anxious. He said in a shrill voice, "After all, our queen's family is related to yours. Can you really bear to watch our queen worrying so much, but you won't even say a word?!"
Mouth?
Is it so easy to find out about the emperor's moods, emotions, and where he lives?!
When nothing is wrong, everything is easy to say, but if you really look into it, it would only take a moment to accuse someone of taking the emperor's will and having ulterior motives.
Especially now, Emperor Guangde has just suffered a fatal threat and is suspicious and irritable.
Although it may not necessarily do anything to Sun Shaozong, the hero, but as long as your evaluation of Sun Shaozong is lowered a few points in your heart, the invisible loss will be huge.
From this perspective, Sun Shaozong should have kept his mouth shut.
However, the problem is that the Sun family is indeed related to the Rongguo Mansion by marriage - to be more precise, he even planted a seed in the belly of the Jia family's daughter.
This is not about looking at the monk's face but looking at the Buddha's face...
A more realistic concern is whether Concubine Xian De will fall out of favor.
If he flatly refused, he would definitely offend Jia Yuanchun. If she did not fall out of favor afterwards, and even gave birth to a prince...
Tsk~
This is a dilemma!
Right now, I'm afraid I can only fool him for a while and let this little eunuch give up.
Thinking of this, Sun Shaozong raised his hand solemnly, pointed at Mingde Hall across the street and said, "Do you know that seven people have died in Mingde Hall today?!"
As he spoke, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a few sharp white teeth. He stared down at , and asked word by word: "Are you sure you really want to know the truth?!"
This is bullying the other party because of information asymmetry.
The news that several people died during drug testing in Yongning Palace has probably spread in the palace, but not many people may know why the drug testing was carried out.
Therefore, Sun Shaozong brought up the matter first, and then pressed the other party to ask whether he really wanted to get to the bottom of it, just to make the other party think wildly, scare himself, and then retreat.
As expected by Sun Shaozong, the eunuch shrank his neck when he heard the words, his face changed several times, he hesitated twice, and finally said with a bitter face: "My lord, you... you can't let me go back like this, right?"
"All right."
Knowing that he was already scared, Sun Shaozong sighed helplessly, put on an expression of "If you are willing to die, I am willing to bury you", and said sinisterly: "Since you insist on asking for clarification, this official will..."
"Slave...slave..."
Seeing Sun Shaozong's hypocritical behavior, the young eunuch became even more afraid to listen - after all, in the imperial palace, the legend that one would lose his head if he listened to a few more words had a history of hundreds of years!
So he hurriedly took a half step back and said in a trembling voice: "Slave...slave will go back and report to the master first!"
Having said that, he turned around and rushed out of Zhen Shun Zhai, running sideways like a crab along the wall, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.
I don't know what this guy will say when he goes back.
Never mind. Anyway, I didn't leak anything useful at all. If it is really exposed in the future, I can easily cover it up.
but……
I'm afraid I can't stay in Zhenshunzhai for long right now, otherwise if Concubine Xian De sends someone again, it will be difficult to get away with it.
So Sun Shaozong simply tidied up his appearance and walked out of Zhenshunzhai, intending to hide in Mingdetang opposite, and also to see what progress Qin Ming and others had made.
Isn't Jia Yuanchun famous for her steadiness and generosity? Why didn't she think things through and just sent someone here?
But on second thought, Jia Baoyu is praised as a genius by the people - so what's so difficult about it for Jia Yuanchun, as his sister, to create a steady and generous personality?
It seems that rumors cannot be fully trusted.
"Master Sun, Master Sun!"
Just as he was secretly sighing that Jia Yuanchun did not live up to her reputation, Sun Shaozong heard someone calling him.
Following the sound, I saw a strange little eunuch in the shadow of the stairs. From his furtive look, I knew he couldn't be the emperor's messenger.
Why is there another one?
But I don’t know which concubine sent her this time.
Sun Shaozong stopped suspiciously, still waiting for the other party to speak first so that he could strike back.
Unexpectedly, the young eunuch took a few steps forward and said in a low voice : "I am here on the orders of the virtuous concubine to ask for your advice."
No way?
He came back so quickly, and he changed people...
wrong!
Although Yongning Palace is not far from Jingren Palace, it is impossible to travel back and forth so quickly.
Sun Shaozong asked tentatively: "Why did your queen ask you to come over at this time? She didn't even ask you to wait a little longer."
These words were naturally meant to test the young eunuch in front of him, wondering whether he knew of the existence of the one in front.
But the young eunuch said something irrelevant : "Your Excellency, you don't know that the palace inspections will be stricter after midnight, so it is best to do what is convenient for you now."
Sure enough, we are not on the same road!
It is obvious that someone is jealous of Jia Yuanchun's favor, so he came here in her name to test the truth, thus killing two birds with one stone!
But the problem is...
Which one is true, the former or the latter?
Or maybe…
There's no truth to it at all!
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the last answer might be the truth. Sun Shaozong couldn't help but feel a chill in his back - the intrigues in the palace were really hard to guard against!
