Reborn as King again

Chapter 148 Drowning

Eight months later, Deng Chengying gave birth to a baby boy without accident. My No. 13 child, named Qi, named Li Qi.

The queen mother was stunned when she saw Li Qi, and then said with a smile that he looked exactly like me when I was a child.Of course I know that Li Qi is very similar to me, not only in appearance, but also in personality, so I like it very much, otherwise Li Qi would not be my favorite son in the previous life.

Because I was reprimanded for the dispute with He Wenliu before, Deng Chengying has restrained herself a lot recently, and she has a child, so she puts all her heart on the child.

Looking at Li Qi's pink face, I couldn't help feeling compassionate. The child I loved the most in my previous life was also the child who died the worst. I don't want the things in my previous life to happen again. I hope Li Qi can be safe and sound, don't be like He died so badly in his previous life.I wanted to make up for some of the regrets of my previous life, so my love for Li Qi became more and more obvious, even more so than in my previous life.I would visit him almost every day, tease him and reward him with many things, just like my father did to Xiao Ba back then.

But I never thought that hurting Li Qi so much would actually hurt him.

In the midsummer of August, the weather is extremely hot, and it is only when the sun sets in the evening that people feel a little cool.When I was having dinner with Zhou Ling in Fengyi Palace, suddenly a guard begged to see me, saying that something was wrong and that an accident happened at Taiye Lake.

After the guards were summoned into the palace, they hurriedly greeted me when they saw me and said, "Your Majesty, Taiye Lake...something happened at Taiye Lake, the thirteenth...the thirteenth prince is probably gone..."

"Gone?!" I thought my ears had misheard, and asked sharply, "What nonsense are you talking about?! How could Qi'er disappear?!"

"Your majesty, please don't worry," Zhou Ling quickly comforted me, then turned to ask the guard, "What happened to the thirteenth prince? Where is Concubine Ying? Why doesn't Concubine Ying take care of him?"

"Slave..." The guard replied falteringly: "Concubine Ying... Concubine Ying is also in a coma..."

"where are they?"

"Back to the emperor, the servants have already sent Concubine Ying back to Yingxi Palace, and they have also called the imperial doctor."

I stood up, not thinking about eating, "Show the Yingxi Palace."

"Your majesty, my minister will go with you." Zhou Ling also stood up with me, he is the empress, and he also has to intervene if there is an accident in the harem.

Along the way, the guard gave us a brief explanation of what happened. It turned out that when they were on duty, they heard someone calling for help. They rushed forward and saw Li Chen standing by the Taiye Lake. He asked what happened in front of him, Li Chen pointed to the lake, and said that there seemed to be someone struggling. When the guards looked over, there were no traces of struggling, but ripples appeared on the lake.

The guards knew that something was wrong, fearing that someone would fall into the lake and tumbling for too long, so they jumped into the lake to save people, but they did not expect Deng Chengying, who was unconscious, and Li Qi, who was drowned, to be rescued.

There was a dead silence in the Yingxi Hall, and the eunuchs in the hall saw me and Zhou Ling coming, and they all knelt down on the ground, shouting their condolences.It seemed that Li Qi was really dead.

I looked at the eunuchs kneeling on the ground with a cold face, and asked, "Why did Concubine Ying go to Taiye Lake today?"

"Back to the emperor..." Luo Ying, the maid in charge of Yingxi Palace, said: "Concubine Ying saw that the weather was not so hot in the evening, so she carried the thirteen princes out of the palace for a walk. Unexpectedly..."

"Is there no one to accompany you out of the palace for a walk?!" I asked with a pale face.

As soon as I finished speaking, a eunuch immediately kowtowed and begged for mercy: "Back... back to the emperor, slave... The slave is with Concubine Ying, but... but beside Taiye Lake, Concubine Ying said there was wind, and she was afraid The little prince was blown, so he asked the servants to go back to the Yingxi Palace to bring the little prince a small cloak, and the concubine Ying waited beside the Taiye Lake with the little prince in her arms."

"That is to say, when Concubine Ying and Qi'er had an accident, you were not by your side to guard, what kind of cloak did you run to get?!"

"Your Majesty, spare your life! Your Majesty, spare your life!" The little eunuch kowtowed uncontrollably.

I told the other eunuchs straight to him: "Pull this dog slave out and stick him to death."

"Your Majesty, please forgive me—"

After a while, the imperial doctor withdrew from the bed and asked An: "Don't worry, Your Majesty, Concubine Ying's life is no longer in serious danger, she is awake now."

Deng Chengying was lying on the bed in unlined clothes, her hair was a little messy, her face was extremely pale and her lips were terribly pale, but she still woke up. When he saw it, he stretched out his hand and asked eagerly, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Where's Qi'er?"

I didn't make a sound, Zhou Ling couldn't see it, felt that Deng Chengying was pitiful, went up to cover him with a brocade quilt, and comforted him: "Concubine Ying, you are still young, and there will be opportunities in the future..."

"No... I don't want..." Deng Chengying heard the bad news from Zhou Ling's mouth, her eyes widened, she grabbed Zhou Ling's hand, tears kept streaming, "Qi'er...my Qi'er..." He was already unconscious and passed out again.

The imperial doctor hurried forward and pinched Deng Chengying's Renzhong acupoint to wake him up gradually.After Deng Chengying regained consciousness again, she cried like a tearful person, and he said: "Your Majesty, you want to avenge Qi'er, someone...someone wants to kill our mother and son, my minister...at that time...someone tweeted The servants went into the water."

"Concubine Ying, don't talk nonsense." Zhou Ling exclaimed after hearing the words: "Did Qi'er cause you to have some hallucinations? Why would someone push you? Could it be that you accidentally fell into the water?"

"Empress Empress, Weichen... How could Weichen miss his footing while holding Qi'er?!" Deng Chengying recalled what happened just now, her whole body trembled, who on earth had such a great hatred to push them into the water, "I can feel it It turns out that Weichen was standing by the lake at that time, wanting to hug Qier and look at the fish in the water, but...but suddenly someone pushed Weichen from behind..."

"Have you seen the face of the person who pushed you?" I asked.Deng Chengying is arrogant and domineering, but it doesn't mean that they are hated to the point of being killed. I am also a little uncertain as to who wants to kill them.

"Weichen...Weichen didn't..." Deng Chengying shook her head, "At that time, Weichen also wanted to turn over his hand and catch the person who pushed Weichen, but he didn't catch him... and fell into the lake..."

"It's okay..." I patted the back of Deng Chengying's cold hand and said, "I will give you and Qi'er justice, you should have a good rest first."

At this time, a court lady came, tidied up the wet clothes that Deng Chengying had taken off, and put them in the basket.Zhou Ling glanced there inadvertently, and suddenly saw a blue bulging thing. Although the fabric was exquisite, the embroidery was really poor. It should be a sachet, but it was already soaked, and the pattern on it could not be seen. Come.

Zhou Ling reached out to take out the sachet, looked back and forth, and asked, "Concubine Ying, is this sachet yours?"

Deng Chengying was very clear about what accessories she had on her body, and said with certainty: "No...it's not Weichen's, Weichen doesn't have a blue sachet, that thing..." Deng Chengying suddenly thought of something, and said excitedly: "Yes The murderer’s, yes, it must be the murderer’s, when I grabbed that person, it might have been taken from him, Your Majesty, from this sachet, we will definitely find the person who killed Qi’er!”

Zhou Ling handed the sachet to me, I looked at the embroidered pattern on it, vaguely felt familiar, suddenly a figure flashed in my mind, Li Ji!

Yes, it's Li Ji, Yun'er embroidered this sachet for him, it was Yun'er's only embroidery before she was stupid, Li Ji has always regarded it as a treasure and never left her body.Could it be that Li Ji pushed Deng Chengying into the water? !Is he that stupid? !

"Your Majesty? Your Majesty?" Zhou Ling called me, seeing that I was thinking about something, "Do you know who the owner of this sachet is?"

"I don't know yet." I will firmly hold the sachet in the palm of my hand, and ask the guards beside me: "Where is Shen'er? Didn't you say that Shen'er found Concubine Ying? Where is Shen'er?"

The guard quickly replied: "His Royal Highness, seeing Concubine Ying being rescued, can't do much by himself, so he went back to the bedroom first."

After I heard the words, I called Wanfu and said: "Call Shen'er to Qianlong Palace, I have something to ask him face to face."

"Yes."

Then I comforted Deng Chengying a few words, and left first.When I returned to Qianlong Palace, Li Chen was already waiting for me in the palace.

After Li Chen saw me coming back, he greeted me, "I send my respects to Father Emperor."

"Well, thanks to you calling for help in time, Concubine Ying was able to save her life." As I spoke, I walked to the main dragon chair and sat down, "I have pity on your thirteenth brother, who passed away before he was a year old. "

Li Chen was slightly taken aback, but quickly expressed his composure, with a sad expression on his face, and said with great regret: "It would be great if I could find out earlier, maybe the thirteenth imperial brother won't..."

"Chen'er, my father asked you something. When you went to Taiye Lake, did you see anyone?" Li Chen could be said to be out of tune with this palace. How could he suddenly appear in Taiye Lake?

"No, my servant didn't see anyone." Li Chen's voice trembled imperceptibly, "At that time... there was no one by the lake at that time."

"There is no one by the lake, so what are you going to do by the lake?" Li Chen's temperament is very simple, and without the guidance of his mother and concubine, he is afraid that he can't even tell the most basic lies, "Don't lie to the emperor."

"I... I didn't lie to you," Li Chen was startled, and quickly shook his head, "I didn't lie to you, I didn't see..." At this point, Li Chen couldn't continue.

"What didn't you see?" I followed his words and asked, "Shen'er, tell Father the truth, did you run to Taiye Lake only after seeing Ji'er?"

"No! I didn't see Ji'er!" Li Chen knelt on the ground and denied it. How could he say it, how could he say it? He saw Li Ji standing by the Taiye Lake for a long, long time, as if admiring Thinking about something, he was still laughing non-stop. He originally wanted to walk over quietly to scare Li Ji, but before he could pass, Li Ji left. When he looked into the lake, he saw One person sank slowly to the bottom of the lake. At that time, he was too scared to think about anything, and just wanted to cry for help, but now that he thought about it, didn't this hurt Ji'er? !

"Really?" I asked with a sneer, "Then what is this? It was salvaged from the lake together. You want to keep Ji'er, isn't Qi'er your younger brother?" The blue sachet was thrown in front of Li Chen. He and Yun'er had a very good relationship. It was Yun'er's handiwork, so he would definitely recognize it.

Sure enough, the moment Li Chen saw the sachet, his face was livid, he couldn't kneel down, his feet softened, and he sat on the ground. His expression told me that it was all done by Li Ji.