Chapter 159
In March, spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and the scenery of the Imperial Garden is getting better.
After passing a forsythia bush, Chen Jiao picked a small yellow flower and thought about her thoughts while walking.
Zhao Wang either favored her for two or three consecutive days, or showed up for a month. What is his attitude towards her?
The peaches, plums and crabapples are about to bloom in the garden, and even warmer peony, roses and peonies will bloom one after another. Chen Jiao is worried that Zhao Yan only treats her as one of the flowers in the garden. When she thinks about it, she picks them. When she gets tired of them, she goes to appreciate other flowers. Although Zhao Yan has not yet performed a talent show, he is the emperor and is afraid that he will obey the advice of the court officials sooner or later.
Chen Jiao hopes that she can win Zhao Yan's heart before that day.
When the villa arrived, Zhao Wangren was sitting under the tree in the backyard. A golden cage hung on the branches, and a lark was chirping happily inside.
Hearing the sound of footsteps, Zhao Yan turned his head and looked into the corridor.
Chen Jiao wore a pink robe today, wearing a white dress underneath, and walked over lightly, beautiful and charming.
Zhao Rong didn't see her many times, but because of those dreams, he knew her well. She acted like a spoiled person, she was angry, she would cry when she was sad, and she would do whatever she wanted to give up. She was like the proudest peony in the garden. When she was happy, she would bloom all the charming brilliance, letting her lover pick it, and when she was sad, she would close the petals and keep people from hiding.
When she approached and looked at him with an inquiring look, Zhao Yan smiled and reached out to her.
Chen Jiao pouted slightly and sent her hand over, but only placed a small yellow flower on his wide palm, and then turned her hand over.
Zhao Wang was slightly surprised and raised his eyebrows and asked, "What is this?"
Chen Jiao snorted: "The emperor has only remembered me for so long. I think I have no weight in the emperor's heart. It's better to give the emperor a flower to welcome the spring, which can be fresh and fresh."
Her complaining look was lively and lively. Zhao Yan looked at her for a while and stretched out his hand again.
Chen Jiao hesitated for a moment, but she didn't lead him. She went around the rattan chair where he was sitting and went to watch the birds next to her.
She stood under the tree, looked up at the bird cage, and footsteps came from behind her. Chen Jiao thought she had no idea. Suddenly, there were a pair of arms around her waist. Zhao Yan lowered her head and kissed her mouth. Chen Jiao turned her head and dodged. Zhao Yan's breathing suddenly became heavier, and he pushed Chen Jiao directly on the tree. He suppressed her with his broad body as the wall, and then blocked Chen Jiao's mouth.
Chen Jiao wanted to have a little temper, and she wanted to make a fuss, so she told him Chen Wan's plan, but the emperor in front of her was as hungry as if she was lifting her skirt up!
In broad daylight, Chen Jiao was still in the yard. She was frightened and dodged Zhao Ying's lips while looking at the corner of the corridor begging him: "Master, don't be here, I'm afraid..."
"Without my order, no one will come." Zhao Yan said in a hoarse voice, and Chen Jiao's incomprehensible fire was burning in his black eyes.
Chen Jiao wanted to refuse, but she could not resist the enthusiasm of an emperor.
The lark in the cage called out twice, and then looked down at the two people under the trees. The spring breeze blew from the branches, leaving a faint smell of grass and trees, and took away a few whispers of the little concubine.
Finally, the branches stopped shaking. Zhao Rong picked up Chen Jiao and walked up the room. The little concubine's skirt was messy and her white little feet were exposed outside. The embroidered shoes she had just walked through had already fallen under the tree.
After entering the house, Zhao Yan covered him again.
Chen Jiao thought in a daze that today's emperor seemed to be not normal.
After the matter was over, Chen Jiao couldn't help but complain: "The emperor doesn't pity me at all."
Zhao Rong looked at her back. When she was outside, she felt uncomfortable against the tree, but he quickly hugged her and took a step back, so she was not injured.
"I'm anxious." Zhao Ying still rubbed her comfortably.
Chen Jiao rubbed against his shoulder, raised her head, looked at his chin and asked, "Does the emperor miss me or my body?"
Zhao Yan lowered his head and met her moist almond eyes. He smiled and said, "I want to do it."
Chen Jiao curled her lips and refused to believe it.
However, everyone loves to listen to sweet words.
After hugging each other for a while, Chen Jiao felt that it was time to talk about the serious business, so she sat up with the quilt and whispered to Zhao Ying: "Emperor, last night, the Empress Dowager learned that the Emperor was going to see me, so she gave me a pill, saying that the Emperor would like to favor me again after taking it, I would definitely be pregnant with the dragon seed, and said that the King of Shou was obtained by her with this pill. The Empress Dowager asked me to take it quietly, but I always felt uneasy. What do you think?"
Zhao Ying was still lying down, and his expression changed slightly when he heard this, and he asked, "Where is the medicine?"
Chen Jiao picked up the clothes he threw on the ground, took out the porcelain bottle and handed it to him.
Zhao Yan poured out the pill, smelled it, and sneered: "This is arsenic."
Chen Jiao had long guessed that the medicine was poisonous, and now she showed just the right amount of shock and panic. She immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, this medicine was given to me by the Queen Mother. I have nothing to do with this matter. Please give it a clear explanation!"
Zhao Rong put the medicine back into the porcelain bottle, stood up, and helped her up and said, "I believe you have nothing to do with this matter. However, if the Queen Mother wants to harm me, I must expose the Queen Mother's conspiracy. Next, you need to testify for me."
Chen Jiao raised her head and frowned and asked, "The Emperor wants me to testify? Then what about you and me..."
Facing her gaze, Zhao Wang thought slightly and said, "Your relationship with me should not be circulated. In this way, you pretend to be on the order of the Queen Mother to send me ginseng soup. I will put this medicine in the soup. I am busy reviewing the memorials and forgot to use the soup. The Bailing I raised accidentally took poison soup and died. After the incident, I will send someone to arrest you for interrogation. You only need to tell that ginseng is given by the Queen Mother. I have my own arrangements for the subsequent matters to ensure that you are safe."
When the emperor spoke, his eyes were calm, and in just a short time he came up with a plan to deal with the empress dowager, as if he had already been confident.
If Chen Jiao was just a simple fifteen-year-old concubine, she would probably be impressed by Zhao Wang's wisdom. However, Chen Jiao has been through seven lifetimes. In this life, Chen Jiao has always been confused. Why did Zhao Wang prefer to risk being struck by lightning to send her to a burial with her? Later, she just cooperated with the Empress Dowager to give him a robe, and he began to favor her?
Chen Jiao was also curious about Chen Wan's intention to try to match her with Zhao Yan. This curiosity got the answer last night.
Now that Chen Wan wants to use her to poison Zhao Yan, Zhao Yan immediately proposed a countermeasure to use her to deal with the empress dowager.
Chen Wan is smart, isn’t Zhao Ying smart?
Did he have seen Chen Wan’s conspiracy long ago, so he used the trick to take her, the beauty, just waiting for Chen Wan to take action?
All kinds of guesses were filled with my mind, and Chen Jiao suddenly felt very tired.
She doesn't want to guess anymore.
She wants to listen to Zhao Ying's words in person.
"The emperor saved my life and gave me a gift to stay in Funing Palace. Did you expect that one day the Empress Dowager would use me to deal with you?"
It was obviously March, but Chen Jiao felt it was colder than the cold winter. She looked at the man opposite and asked softly.
Zhao Yan agreed.
He didn't want to hide it from her at all, otherwise he wouldn't have rushed to tell her countermeasures and aroused her suspicion.
He was using her, he was trying to let her know that he was the emperor Zhao Wang, just Zhao Wang, not the shadows she liked.
The emperor was open and honest, Chen Jiao lowered her eyes and her vision gradually blurred.
She was happy when she saw him, and she was willing to bear the lightning for him. She was eager to remember him. From then on, the two of them spent their whole life together, a complete life, but never thought that Zhao Rong did not remember those seven lives, and he didn't care who she was. From beginning to end, he only regarded her as a pawn.
He is indeed the reincarnation of Han Yue and others, but he is not them.
She was just wishful thinking and couldn't tell the difference between the seven-life dream and reality. In fact, as soon as the moment she completed the mission of changing her fate, she should have looked forward, instead of hoping to renew her relationship with a strange emperor.
After a long time of silence, Chen Jiao lowered her head and asked, "Your Majesty is not afraid that I will follow the lead of the Queen Mother and poison your tea?"
There were tears on her face. Zhao Rong watched the tears slide along her face and said, "Her every move is under my surveillance. If you poison and get stolen, you and the Queen Mother will be executed with the same crime. If you know the wits and abandon the darkness and turn to the light, I will naturally save your life."
Chen Jiao understands.
It is useless to pursue the past and regret it again. Chen Jiao put on her clothes and knelt down to the bed and kowtowed, "My daughter is willing to testify for the emperor, but she hopes that the emperor will agree to the matter."
"explain."
Chen Jiao said slowly: "After the Empress Dowager was imprisoned, the emperor asked the emperor to release the minister from the palace because his daughter had made contributions."
"Impossible, you are my woman, I will give you a title." Zhao Yan said coldly.
Chen Jiao smiled bitterly. She didn't care whether she was innocent or not, or whether she could get married again in the future. She just didn't want to stay with him.
"If the emperor does not agree, the forgiveness of the daughter of the emperor will not be able to cooperate with you to expose the empress dowager." She threatened with the last hope.
Zhao Rong smiled and sat down beside the bed. He bent down and raised her chin.
Chen Jiao didn't open her eyes.
Zhao Ying did not force her, but whispered: "If you do not cooperate, I will punish you and the Queen Mother. By then, the entire Duke's Mansion will be implicated by your cousins, and the king who kills the king will be killed as a whole family."
Chen Jiao's breathing became heavier and her whole body was trembling with coldness.
When Zhao Ying saw this, his tone eased. He held Chen Jiao in his arms without any refusal, buried her in her black hair and said, "You are obedient, I will give you a title."
Chen Jiao was not interested, but he used the family of the Duke's Mansion to coerce, so Chen Jiao could only cooperate.
In the afternoon of the same day, Chen Jiao made ginseng soup and sent it to Chongzheng Hall. Next, according to Zhao Yan's plan, she and Chen Wan were arrested one after another.
Zhao Ying does have all the evidence that Chen Wan sent her confidant to buy arsenic. What he has been waiting for is Chen Wan to take action. Now Chen Wan is trapped in the trap. Zhao Ying has even dealt with the three princes, but can't deal with her?
Three days later, the Empress Dowager was imprisoned for murdering the emperor, waiting for the Queen Qiu to behead him. The King of Shou was young and innocent, and the emperor was kind and did not take his anger. As for the concubine Chen Jiao, although she was only used by the Queen Mother and had no intention of harming others, it almost caused a disaster. The Empress Dowager begged the Emperor to allow her to guard the tomb for the late emperor, and the Emperor was kind to him.
Chen Jiao didn't want to guard the tomb, it was just Zhao Yan's arrangement. Chen Jiao had only been in the tomb for half a month before she was secretly sent to the Royal Garden outside the capital.
Zhao Rong was not in the Royal Villa. There, Chen Jiao met a mother arranged by Zhao Rong for her, Luo.
Half a year later, Luo and Chen Jiao got on a carriage, and the carriage entered the city gate and headed straight to the Duke Xianguo's mansion.
His daughter was punished to go to the imperial tomb and lived a life like a dead person. Duke Xian of the Kingdom Chen Yan was exhausted and handed three consecutive resignations. Zhao Yan approved his memorial, but retained the title of Duke Chen's Mansion. Chen Yan no longer cared about fame and fortune, and stayed with his wife at home every day, and the couple missed his daughter together.
"Mr., Madam, there is a wife outside who claims to be a relative of the Yongzhou family. When the family is in trouble, she has nowhere to go, so she brings her daughter to join us."
Chen Yan's family did live in Yongzhou for generations, and Chen Yan had no close contact with him, but since he was a relative, he still had to meet him.
"Please come in."
The couple went to the hall together.
Luo is a wife in her early thirties. She has a good appearance and is very regular and dedicated. She claims to be the wife of Chen Yan's distant cousin.
Chen Yan frowned and had no impression of Luo's cousin.
"This is the little girl Gillian, Gillian will salute you quickly."
Chen Jiao, who had been wearing a veil hat, then took off the veil hat and knelt down to her biological parents crying.
Chapter completed!