allonlinenovel Chapter 164 The Queen took the opportunity to negotiate conditions
Chapter 164 The Queen took the opportunity to negotiate conditions
The queen was trembling with anger at the emperor's words. They had been married for twenty or thirty years, and now, for the sake of that woman, the emperor openly brought people to search her bedroom.
"Your Majesty, please go somewhere else. I don't have any Saintess from Southern Border here."
"Queen, please move aside. I am just taking a look. If there is really no one there, I will withdraw the person immediately."
The queen was very nervous, but she was not particularly averse to the palace search.
The main thing is that the room where Song Qingwan studies the poison is still there. If the emperor finds out something fishy, it will be bad.
"I am the Queen Mother and the head of this harem. Why would I keep a saint girl in secret?"
"The Queen has repeatedly stopped me from doing this. Is it because she has some unspeakable secret that she is afraid I will find out?"
The emperor sat in the main seat without saying a word, staring at the queen closely, his eyes revealing an invisible pressure.
The queen lowered her head, not daring to look the emperor in the face, her heart filled with fear and anxiety.
She didn't know how to explain to dispel the emperor's suspicion, but the things in that room must not be discovered.
The emperor's eyes became more and more sharp, as if he wanted to see through the queen's body into her heart.
The queen felt her heart beating faster and faster. She tried to calm herself, but the fear in her heart was like an invisible hand, tightly grasping her heart.
The queen took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down.
She raised her head and glanced at the emperor, her eyes full of helplessness and grievance.
The emperor looked into the queen's eyes, his heart filled with anger and disappointment.
In his opinion, the Queen didn't want him to go in so much, most likely she was hiding a man.
Just then Princess Yueyao walked quickly from outside the palace. She glanced at her mother and nodded at her.
The queen finally breathed a sigh of relief. She knew that Yue Yao was telling her that she had already dealt with the things in advance.
"Father, don't you understand why the Queen Mother doesn't want you to search the palace? She is your first wife and the queen mother of Southern Xinjiang. How can you put her dignity aside by searching her bedroom casually like this?"
"I just want to find Murong You, I don't want to hurt the queen."
"What if Father can't find it? What if Murong You is not in Mother's palace? What will you do? Will the search be in vain?"
"So what do you think should be done?"
The Queen suddenly spoke up to stop Yue Yao. She looked at the Emperor with a heartbroken expression and spoke with difficulty.
"Yueyao, there's no need to stop us. Let your father search us! If we keep blocking you from entering, it will make it seem like our mother is not open-minded enough."
The emperor's expression eased a lot. He looked at the haggard queen in front of him and suddenly felt a little guilty. Did he really wrongly accuse her?
With the queen's permission, the emperor waved his hand and a group of eunuchs went directly into the queen's bedroom and searched everywhere.
The queen calmly found a chair and sat down. Yueyao stood beside her and gently held her hand.
The queen raised her head and looked at her daughter with an inquiring look, while Princess Yueyao smiled and nodded, indicating that she need not worry.
Sure enough, after half an hour of searching, the eunuchs came out to report that there was no saint in the Queen's palace and there was nothing unusual.
The emperor looked suspicious. When he came in just now, the queen was obviously panicked. How come she couldn't find anything?
"Have you searched carefully? Did you leave anything behind?"
"Back to the Emperor, no."
The queen looked at the emperor with sarcasm at this time and spoke in a sarcastic tone.
"Does His Majesty have to find something from my concubine's palace before he is satisfied? Could it be that someone told His Majesty something, so that this result makes His Majesty so disappointed."
"What are you saying, Queen? You are the queen, who dares to speak nonsense about you behind your back? I am just being mean, please don't blame me, Queen."
"Is the Emperor going to let this go? I have endured the humiliation of this palace search in vain?"
"Then the Queen said, what should I do?"
"What can I do? You and I have been married for decades, and now we are in such a situation. I will close my palace and recuperate. Please don't come to my palace again in the near future, so as not to cause more sadness."
"What about the Queen's health? Are you really not going to take the medicine?"
"My heart is dead. What difference does it make whether I take the medicine or not? I don't care anymore."
Yueyao also understood what her mother meant, which was to take this opportunity to recuperate.
If people found out that her mother's health had improved, there was no guarantee that the emperor would not come up with other ideas to harm her again, so she helped out.
"Father, please agree. I will stay with you. Please don't disturb us. Don't let other concubines disturb your peace."
The emperor touched his nose in embarrassment. He knew that the palace search was indeed too hasty.
It was all because of that Concubine Rou who told him that there were suspicious people in the Queen's palace, so he made a big fuss about it, but he didn't expect to lose face.
If he doesn't even agree to this request now, it would seem that he is too stingy as an emperor.
"I promise you that from today on, all the concubines in the harem will be exempted from paying respects to the Queen, and I will not disturb the Queen. The Queen can rest and recover soon."
"Thank you, Your Majesty"
A faint smile appeared at the corner of the queen's lips. This was exactly the result she wanted.
Now all the toxins in her body have been cleared. As long as she takes good care of herself in the remaining days, she will be back to normal within three months.
She was just worrying about how to recuperate in the palace, and the emperor happened to search the palace today, giving her the opportunity.
Once she recovers, the Pei family will no longer be threatened by the emperor.
After the emperor left, the queen asked Yueyao where the things in that room had gone and why they could not be found.
Yueyao smiled and told the story.
It turned out that when Song Qingwan left that day, she had already cleared out all her things and thrown them into her own space.
Although Yue Yao didn't know why her master could make things disappear out of thin air, she had full faith in her master's ability.
So when she heard today that the emperor was searching the harem, she asked Song Qingwan first.
Song Qingwan told her to open the door and let them search, so Princess Yueyao came over.
"This Miss Song is truly an extraordinary woman. It is a great honor for us to have the honor of meeting her."
"Don't worry, mother, take care of yourself. I'll take care of everything. I'll just wait for you to recover and come back."
After a day of searching the palace, all the concubines' bedrooms in the harem were searched, but there was still no sign of Murong You, the Saintess of Southern Xinjiang.
The emperor realized the seriousness of the matter, so he told Zhao Yuanshen about it.
Zhao Yuanshen could hardly believe what he heard, his face was filled with shock.
"What? Disappeared out of thin air? Are you kidding me?"
How could a living person disappear out of thin air?
Besides, he went to Murong You’s bedroom that night and was there well. How could he suddenly disappear?