He couldn't help but bend down and hugged Chao Ci: "A Ci, please don't be like this, okay?" / The scout said that Chaohua's mother, Ruan, left last night.
As soon as she arrived, she talked about the miscarriage, and Chao Ci froze.
Only then did Chaohua pay attention to scanning. Chaoci was originally folding small paper clothes in his hands.
That's for children who died young.
Chaohua was shocked. He turned around and saw a tablet enshrined on the table inside.
She felt a little bit creepy, but then she felt proud again.
This so-called eldest son was just gone after all.
She knew Lou Jue. Even though she had only died in a rural village in her last life, she had heard of Lou Jue because he was the Feng Qi Emperor of Da Chu.
When Lou Yue was in his forties, he passed the throne to the young prince. Under Lou Yue's governance, Da Chu's territory continued to expand, and the country's seas and rivers were clear, and the world was at peace. With such great achievements, he can be called a prosperous and wise king of his generation. And Lou Jue took over the prosperous age that seemed to have no further progress from his father. He did not stop at maintaining success, but made further progress. Lou Yue spent more than 20 years laying the foundation for him. He used this to He created a prosperous dynasty unique to him for the soil.
Therefore, when Chao Hua learned that Chao Ci was pregnant, Chao Hua was frightened. This fear was even worse than when she heard that Chao Ci had come back from the dead.
Because like Chao Ci, she knew that the time of this pregnancy coincided with the time when Lou Jue was conceived in her previous life.
She was a little crazy for a while. Wouldn't things change no matter what she did? Lou Yue still fell in love with Chao Ci, and Chao Ci still had Lou Jue.
I just didn't expect that in just a few days, the news of Chao Ci's miscarriage came.
This news completely dispelled her panic about Chao Jia's rehabilitation and made her want to laugh even in her dreams.
"I'm sorry for my nephew, he doesn't have this fate. If he can be born well, he may be the prince of Chu." She looked sad, but she was smiling. In front of Chao Ci, she would not bother to do these superficial things.
Chao Ci ignored her, but lowered his head and continued making the little paper clothes.
Chao Hua found Chao Hua a little boring because of his quiet demeanor. She didn't really come here to visit Chao Ci.
She looked at Chao Ci and sneered: "Chao Ci, do you know why I hate you so much?"
Chao Ci made a move.
He stopped what he was doing and said slowly, "Not only do you hate me, you also hate the Chao family."
"I also want to know the reason." Chao Ci said, slowly raising his head and fixing his eyes on Chao Hua.
What is the reason that makes you hate your brother who has loved you since childhood?
What is the reason that allows you to take such revenge on the family that has raised you as their legitimate daughter and never owed you a cent?
"Because you robbed me." Chaohua's tone was filled with grudges and resentment, "I met Lou Yue first. I met him when he was thirteen years old, when he was still someone who could be bullied. I fell in love with him. I have done so much for him, and I have a share of the credit for his current achievements. He promised to marry me as his queen when he came back alive from the northwest. You are just a shield for him to push him out. "
"You bewitched him and made him treacherous! I was supposed to be the lord of the Sixth Palace and the mother of the world, but now I am just a concubine. Shouldn't I hate you?" Her voice became more and more urgent, and the hand on her hand The golden armor was firmly embedded in the flesh.
Chao Ci was stunned after hearing this.
"Why are you here?" After a sound of pushing the door open, the tall man stepped into the house. When he saw Chaohua in the room, he immediately became cold.
Ever since Chao Ci had a miscarriage, he had become haggard and abnormal. Lou Yue was afraid of disturbing him, so he didn't let the eunuch call him every time he came.
Now that he saw Chaohua here, his heart sank.
He knew Chaohua's thoughts a long time ago. Originally, he had no intention of letting Chaohua enter the palace, but later he allowed her to enter the palace after discovering that there were clues between Chaohua and Lou Chen. She was jealous of Chao Ci and even repaid kindness with hatred. He knew all these things. I just needed to use her as a lead in the past.
Now she is useless. Not to mention that Lou Chen didn't care about her at all, even if Lou Chen cared about her, Lou Yue had the memory in the dream and almost had the upper hand in the confrontation with Lou Chen. This secret fight to the death was almost over. Chen himself could not protect himself, let alone Chaohua. Lou Yue didn't deal with her for a while just because he couldn't remember the details at the moment. After all, ever since he got Chao Ci back, one incident after another had exhausted his energy.
But seeing Chaohua and Chaoci in the same room made him instantly wary. He knew that Chaohua was stupid and poisonous, but in many cases stupidity could not reduce a person's viciousness. On the contrary, her stupidity made her poisonous appear more unscrupulous.
Chaohua hadn't seen Lou Yue for a long time, and now he just came to Chao Ci's place to sit for a while and then bumped into Lou Yue, which made him shocked and jealous.
She quickly stood up and saluted Lou Yue.
Lou Yue stared at her closely and asked in a cold voice: "What did you say to the Queen?"
"Concubine, concubine..." Chaohua stumbled for a long time, not knowing how to reply.
No matter how stupid she is, she can still tell Lou Yue's attitude from the neglect during this period.
She knew that Lou Yue really had no feelings for her, and he still kept her now, perhaps just because he remembered the karma and kindness from back then.
"Concubine Shu said that Your Majesty once promised to make her your queen, and I was just a shield between Your Majesty and her." Chaohua's voice was calm and he looked straight at Lou Yue, "Your Majesty, is what she said true? ?"
"..."
Lou Yue didn't expect that Chaohua was talking about this.
She is indeed stupid. What good will it do her to say this to Chao Ci? It's just a business that harms others but does not benefit oneself.
But whether Chaohua was stupid or not was no longer the focus of his thinking. Almost the moment Chao Ci asked this question, Lou Yue panicked.
He subconsciously wanted to deny it, but when he faced Shang Chaoci's calm and indifferent eyes, those false denials suddenly stuck in his throat.
Seeing him like this, Chao Ci didn't understand anything.
"It seems like it's true." Chao Ci said softly.
It turns out that this life is really different from the last one.
In this life, Lou Yue originally liked Chaohua, and he originally agreed to marry Chaohua. It's ridiculous that he is still living in the previous life, thinking that Lou Yue is still the lover who has been with him for the rest of his life.
After resurrecting his life, he thought he had an advantage, but he was blinded by this so-called advantage.
"Aci..." Lou Yue couldn't help but call him.
He wanted to make some excuses for himself. But what's the excuse? He said that he did think so at first, but later he was attracted to him and really fell in love with him. But what happened next? He used Chao Ci and Chao Jia as bait and made them suffer a lot.
What does such an excuse add to his glory?
Maybe he had better excuses, but at this moment, facing the speech, he couldn't use those excuses to excuse him.
"It doesn't matter." Chao Ci shook his head gently, then lowered his head and continued folding his little paper clothes.
He had given up on Lou Yue in this life long ago. Now Chaohua's words could not hurt him, but only made him more aware of the absurdity and ridiculousness of this life.
Who does Lou Yue like, why does he want to be his queen, and what does this have to do with him?
When Lou Yue killed Jue'er, he no longer had any hope for this person.
"You go down first." Lou Yue said to Chaohua.
He knew that he should deal with Chao Hua, but he was not in a hurry to taint Chao Ci's eyes in front of him.
Chaohua was a little unwilling.
She didn't expect to tell Chao Ci about this matter that had been brooding in her heart, but Chao Ci didn't have any unnecessary reaction.
"Why don't you get out?!"
Seeing that she hesitated for a long time without moving, Lou Yue urged her coldly.
Chaohua bit his lip and finally left reluctantly.
After she left, the atmosphere in the room was still condensed.
Since the child was gone, Chao Ci's entire anger seemed to have been drained away.
He became taciturn and could not be moved by anything else. He just made small things for the dead child and prayed for it and offered incense all day long.
Logically speaking, a child who died young should not even have a memorial tablet. Chao Ci was the queen, but she enshrined the child's tablet in her palace and named the child Lou Jue.
In the palace, he was making things used by dead people all day long. If others came to Linhua Palace, they would be frightened to death.
His behavior seemed extremely weird and unreasonable to others.
It was just a fetus of just over three months old.
Even if it's sad, why did it get to this point? I was simply stunned.
As the mother of a country, such behavior is extremely ridiculous. But Lou Yue has always acquiesced.
Because he felt guilty in his heart, felt guilty about that child, and felt even more sorry for Chao Ci.
He just watched in silence as Chao Ci carefully put the folded paper clothes aside, then took out another piece of oil paper and started making them.
"Aci." He couldn't help but speak, wanting to break the dull and suffocating atmosphere, "The Chao family is going back to Beijing."
"It should be three days later. At that time, Gu will take you to meet them outside the palace, okay?" He walked up to Chao Ci and asked softly.
Chao Ci stopped moving his hands, and after a moment, he slowly nodded.
The smile on Lou Yue's lips was a little bitter.
Nowadays, Chao Ci can only respond to him with a sentence or two when he mentions the Chao family.
He was suddenly very flustered.
I couldn't help but bend down and hug Chao Ci: "A Ci, please don't be like this, okay?"
He thought that no matter what happened, he would always have a chance to make up for Chao Ci. He can atone for the injuries he has suffered and the scars left behind, and heal them little by little.
But the child had been gone for nearly a month. No matter how he tried to make up for Chao Ci and how he tried to make Chao Ci happy, Chao Ci always looked like he had lost his soul.
Can Chao Ci still come out?
Is he really... wrong?
Lou Yue closed his eyes and told himself over and over again.
No, he's not wrong. No matter what, he couldn't tolerate the slightest possibility of losing his speech.
Will come out.
He placed a gentle kiss on Chao Ci's forehead.
Chao Ci allowed him to move without any unnecessary expression.
............
The day before Chao returned home, another big event happened in the palace.
Concubine Shu's Haiyan Palace was also searched by the imperial army, and those found were not the only ones who were at the queen's place.
Among the letters exchanged between her and the former prince, there were also letters between her and many ministers in the court. After such a search, in addition to Concubine Shu, many rebellious officials and traitors from Lou Chen's faction were also caught.
Not just letters, but also some tokens. In the end, her personal maid confessed the whole story of how she framed Chao Ci.
Everything that happened in Linhua Palace that day reappeared in Haiyan Palace like a repeat.
Chaohua looked at the so-called letters and tokens, his eyes widening in disbelief.
No matter how stupid she was, how could she leave so much evidence of crime! The correspondence between her and Lou Chen had obviously been burned by her long ago!
Chapter 91
After the initial struggle, her hair was messy and she was being held by the imperial guards and kneeling on the ground. All she could see was Lou Yue's dark golden clothes and boots.
Just like the speech at that time.
She raised her head with difficulty and looked at the man's face. The man looked down at her, his narrow phoenix eyes without any emotion.
Chaohua suddenly laughed softly.
"Why are you laughing?" Lin Cheng asked her.
Lin Cheng used to be a taciturn person, but since Lou Yue asked him to play the eunuch, he was forced to talk more due to professional requirements and faithfully played the role of the onmyoji next to Lou Yue.
"I want to read those letters," Chaohua said, lowering his head.
"What tricks are you trying to do when death is imminent?" Lin Cheng raised his eyebrows and said coldly.
Lou Yue waved his hand and looked at Chao Hua, who was kneeling on the ground and looking miserable: "Let her see."
The imperial guard holding the letters stepped forward and handed them all to Chaohua, while staring at her to prevent her from destroying these important evidences.
Chaohua opened a few letters casually, moving faster and faster. After flipping through one letter, he glanced at it and threw it away. Then he looked at the next letter as if he was crazy.
Finally she put the letters down, stopped reading them, knelt on the ground and laughed.
She is too stupid. Chaohua, Chaohua, how could you be so stupid!
She had never written these letters, although the handwriting on them was exactly the same as hers. It's so similar, those handwritings. In order to frame Chao Ci, she specially found someone to imitate Chao Ci's handwriting for a long time day and night. In the end, there were subtle differences. Fortunately, almost no one could see these differences except Chao Ci herself.
But these letters are different. Even if Chaohua himself is here, he can't see any difference between these handwritings and his own.
If there were only one or two letters, she would think that she had written them before but forgot about them. But there are dozens of letters here, it's impossible for her to remember them all.
And the contents of those letters and the people who "corresponded" with her were even more ridiculous. In order to show his sincerity, Lou Chen told her some of his spies and arrangements in the court. She didn't know much, but almost half of them appeared in these letters. Then there is no need to guess when trusting other people.
Someone is lending her hand to eliminate Lou Chen's gang members.
As for who this person is, do you need to think about it? ——Who else could it be besides Lou Yue?
Lou Yue and Lou Chen have been secretly fighting for so long. At least half of Lou Chen's gang members in the court must have been exposed. But it may not be useful for Lou Yueguang to know who they are. He can't catch the tails of these people, and he can't catch the evidence that can really convict them.
But now, she has become Lou Yue's best sword. If she brought these people along when she was punishing her, it would be almost like a mountain of ironclad evidence.
Just like how she harmed Chao Ci, there are obviously many doubts, but as long as the superiors don't dig into it, it is natural for Chao Ci to be punished.
Chaohua looked up at the ruthless emperor.
It turns out that she has been seeking skin from a tiger for so long.
She thought that if she knew those opportunities, she could take advantage of Lou Yue and play tricks on him. But now I know how ridiculous these uses and methods are in front of Lou Yue. Lou Yue was never stupid. He was the final winner in the battle to seize the inheritance. In his last life, Lou Chen could not stay in his hands for long. He only reigned for more than 20 years, but he unified Kyushu.
She has been acting smart in front of such a person for so long.
"Have you laughed enough?" Lou Yue asked her.
His voice was not cold, but without any emotion. Dealing with her would neither bring him any pleasure nor make him feel uncomfortable. Just deal with an object normally.
Chaohua suddenly felt frightened.
"Lou... Your Majesty, you can't do this to me. The things I did for you back then cannot be faked..." She talked about the kindness she had shown Lou Yue in an attempt to arouse Lou Yue's pity.
Lou Yue lowered his eyes and looked at her.
Indeed, no matter what her thoughts were, her kindness to him did exist.
But she chose to betray and harm Chao Ci. These kindnesses should have been wiped out.
That's all... let her live.
"Concubine Shu was deprived of her title, demoted to a commoner, imprisoned in Dali Temple, and imprisoned for life." Lou Yue came to the final trial.
Chaohua seemed to have lost all his strength in an instant.
Now she is nothing, has nothing, betrayed Lou Yue, betrayed the Chao family, and spent her life in prison... How should she spend her life?
Those horrific days and situations made her feel terrified even thinking about them now.
She knelt on the ground slumped, and suddenly thought of something.
She's not done yet, she still has the last chip in her hand!
But just when she was about to say it, she heard someone outside the palace shouting that the queen was coming.
Then the surrounding palace maids, eunuchs, and the imperial guards all saluted and said, "Welcome the empress!"
It's Chao Ci's arrival.
Since his miscarriage, this is the first time he has left Linhua Palace, which is like a ghost hall.
"Aci, why are you here?"
The man who had been cold and ruthless just a moment ago hurriedly walked towards her brother and eagerly gathered the fox fur on his body for him.
"Why didn't you tell me in advance when you came? It's freezing cold. What should I do if I get cold?"
It's winter now and it's very cold. Since Chao Ci's miscarriage, his already poor health has become weaker and more afraid of the cold. Lou Yue kept those furs and earth dragons close to the Linhua Palace, for fear that Chao Ci would be cold.
Chaohua looked at this scene, and then realized that he was kneeling on the cold and hard ground, almost unconscious.
Is this the result of her lifelong struggle?
She tugged at the corners of her mouth and burst into tears as she laughed.
But Chao Ci was completely unmoved by Lou Yue's earnestness. He allowed Lou Yue to tighten the fox fur around his body, and then walked towards Chaohua.
"What are you doing here?" Chaohua looked up at him, smiling embarrassedly and viciously, "You are very proud to see my end, right?"
"I can't say I'm proud." Chao Ci said with a solemn expression.
And Chaohua hated him so much. Lou Yue is like this, and so is Chao Ci, but why is Chao Ci?
A man is just a servant of Israel, what is there to be proud of?
"My parents will be back tomorrow, and so will your aunt." Chao Ci said to her.
"What does it have to do with me?" Chaohua sneered.
Chao Ci looked at her for a long time before he said, "It doesn't matter anymore."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked away. It seems that I came to this Haiyan Palace just to say these confusing words.
Seeing that he was going back and the affairs here were almost settled, Lou Yue did not intend to stay, but left with Chao Ci.
Looking at Lou Yue's back as he left without hesitation, Chaohua was still thinking about what she had just thought of, her last bargaining chip.
She wanted to call Lou Yue to stop, but after opening her mouth, no sound came out.
Would she say it now? If he spoke out now, he would be saved...
Why was he saved?
He should go to hell with him!
............
The next day, the Chao family was about to enter Beijing.
Chao Ci was rarely in good spirits, so he got up early, took a shower, put on a nice outfit, and specifically asked Bi Fei to make him look more attractive.
When Lou Yue came to pick him up at Laihua Palace, he was also a little surprised. At this time, Chao Ci could not see the sick look on his face and the depression between his brows. He looked very cheerful.
He was about to get on the chariot and go with Chao Ci to meet the Chao family members outside the city.
But here, a scout suddenly arrived and whispered something in Lou Yue's ear.
Lou Yue's eyes suddenly opened slightly.
The scout said that Chaohua's mother, Ruan, left last night.
The journey of exile was very difficult. Even if Lou Yue sent people to protect them secretly, they could only prevent the guards from treating them harshly. However, after all, they were walking to the northwest under simple conditions. People would get sick easily under such circumstances. Ruan suffered a sudden illness. After the Chao family was rehabilitated, the people sent by Lou Yue had already brought a doctor to follow Ruan. This was not serious at first, but who knew that Ruan would just leave like this.
Lou Yue felt a biting chill in his palms.
Now that it's time, Ruan is gone, what should Chao Ci think, how sad should he be?
In an instant, he had the urge to refuse and resign outside the city to meet his family.
But he was soon overruled by himself. If he could hide it for a while, could he hide it for the rest of his life?
Lou Yue turned around and told Lin Cheng, secretly sending several imperial doctors to follow him, and then brought Chao Ci onto the chariot as usual.
Chao Ci didn't pay attention when he saw the scout talking to Lou Yue. Lou Yue has the most elite scouts under his command, which is not even a secret in the imperial city. Chao Ci has seen many times when the scout suddenly came to report something urgent.