AWB Chapter 179 Xiao Anzi's Real Master
Chapter 179 Xiao Anzi's Real Master
Xiao Anzi stepped forward silently.
He slowly reached out his hand and supported the Queen who was lost in memories.
"My lady, it's cold at night. You should go back with us and rest early."
Upon hearing this, the Queen suddenly looked at Xiao Anzi with a smile on her face. That smile was very unfamiliar. Xiao Anzi had been serving the Queen for a few days, but had never seen her smile like that.
That smile clearly touched his heart and was clearly full of sincerity, but for some reason Xiao Anzi felt inexplicably scared.
"Empress, what's wrong with you? If you have any concerns, please tell me. I will do my best to relieve your worries."
"Relieve my worries? At this point, how can you have the ability to relieve my worries..."
It was very strange. After the Queen said this while looking up at the stars, she did not speak again all the way to Kunning Palace.
After Xiao Anzi helped the Queen lie down on the phoenix couch and fall asleep, he finally walked out of Kunning Palace with a calm face.
Recently, he clearly noticed something wrong from the Queen's eyes.
No matter what, no matter how great the risk, he must meet his real master and report the situation to him truthfully.
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In the night, under the dark moon in the sky, a carriage drove out from the palace, winding along the way, and finally stopped in front of a teahouse.
At this time, Xiao Anzi, dressed as a commoner, slowly walked down from the carriage.
A clever waiter in the teahouse quickly stepped forward and whispered in his ear: "Sir, please go to the second floor... The distinguished guest has been waiting upstairs for a long time. Please go to the innermost room."
After whispering to each other as if nothing had happened, Xiao Anzi and Eunuch An finally walked into the teahouse, and after a while, they pushed open the door of the innermost room.
At this time, in the private room, Xiao Jue was sipping tea with a teacup. When he saw someone coming in, he gave Bai Jing a look and immediately understood what was going on. He retreated to the door of the private room and stood guard at a distance of three meters.
"master..."
"Why did you risk leaving the palace today? Could it be that the Queen has already started a rebellion? What have you heard?"
Xiao Jue put down the teacup and motioned for him to take a sip of the herbal tea in his hand.
After Xiao Anzi drank the cold tea respectfully, he finally spoke slowly: "Prince, although I haven't heard that the Queen has sent any news to the outside world, I can clearly feel that she has been very different in the past few days. She seems to have seen through everything and has already made up her mind to die. She is telling the Crown Prince about her funeral arrangements."
When Xiao Jue heard this, he scraped the rim of the teacup with the lid.
"Go on..."
"Prince, the Crown Prince's Consort is also on the Queen's radar. I'm afraid the Queen will do whatever it takes to get the Crown Prince to get in the way. You and the Crown Prince's Consort must be careful, be prepared and be on guard early."
Listening to what Eunuch An said, Xiao Jue's eyes suddenly became frightened, and he stared at little Anzi in amazement.
When it was mentioned that the Queen was planning a rebellion, Prince Xiao was still extremely calm. Unexpectedly, his expression changed immediately when the Crown Princess was mentioned.
It seems that what the master said was right. This Prince Xiao is as lovesick as Marquis Jingyuan.
It turned out that Xiao Anzi was Eunuch Xu who served Concubine Xiao. He was a little boy who was accidentally rescued from the old empress dowager in the palace many years ago.
At that time, little Anzi was only eleven years old. Because he had just been castrated, he was not used to the strict rules of the palace for a while, so he accidentally broke the pair of celestial globe vases that were the Empress Dowager's favorite.
The eunuch in charge had already made up his mind to make an example of him, so he broke one of Xiao Anzi's legs and reported to everyone and the Empress Dowager.
Unexpectedly, Eunuch Xu, who came with Concubine Xiao to pay respects to the Empress Dowager, happened to see this scene.
I don’t know if it was because of his first impression of Xiao Anzi, but the moment he saw him, he felt sympathy for the child.
So, he took courage and proposed to the Empress Dowager that his younger brother, who was living outside the palace, should personally make a pair of peony porcelain vases, which he was best known for, for the Empress Dowager.
Unexpectedly, the Queen Mother readily agreed after hearing it.
It was also from that time that Eunuch Xu began to secretly take special care of this little Anzi.
Five years passed in a blink of an eye, and the former little Anzi had unknowingly become a favorite of the Queen.
But he never forgot Eunuch Xu's life-saving grace.
He even took the initiative to find Eunuch Xu and Concubine Xiao, wanting to become their most effective dagger against the Empress.
"Eunuch An...what do you mean by the Queen wanting to take action against the Crown Prince's Consort for the Crown Prince's sake?"
When Xiao Jue thought of the failed assassination attempt on Lin Acai by the man in black, he still felt a lump in his throat, but he heard a different meaning between the lines of his father-in-law's words just now.
"Sir, the Queen has confirmed the Crown Prince's feelings for Miss Lin. She has personally promised the Crown Prince that she will snatch Miss Lin away from you. The Queen even said, for the first time ever, that even if the Crown Prince ascends the throne in the future and promotes her to a noble concubine, she will agree with the Crown Prince's decision."
"Does that vicious woman really think so? She doesn't know her own limitations..."
Xiao Jue suddenly curled his lips and smiled, thinking that the vicious woman's idea was too fantastic.
"Prince, I heard these words with my own ears beside the Queen, and they can't be false. As for what the Queen is planning and planning in her heart, I don't know. Anyway, you and the Crown Princess must make plans early. I, Xiao Anzi, will always stand on your side."
After saying what he wanted to say, Xiao Anzi went downstairs without staying for too long. After taking the food box from the waiter, he got on the carriage back to the palace.
Almost the same as when it came, the carriage circled around on the way and when it was about to reach the palace gate, it was suddenly stopped by a group of black knights in front.
"Is the person sitting in the front the eunuch An who is sitting in front of the Queen?"
The leader of the men in black, who was leading the front, sat on a tall maroon horse, overlooking the lonely carriage in front of him, and questioned in a cold voice.
"Eunuch...someone is stopping us ahead." The driver, Lao Li, who was about 40 years old, suddenly frowned and looked back at the curtain behind him.
"Don't worry, Old Li. Don't panic. I, Eunuch An, have been prepared."
"My Lord! I don't know why you are stopping my carriage at this late hour? I am following orders. The Queen has not had a good appetite recently. I have taken the trouble to buy this sweet-scented osmanthus cake for the Queen, and you dare to stop me rashly!"
As he spoke, Xiao Anzi showed no trace of fear.
The sharp voice came directly and clearly outside the car.
Anyway, it has been known for a long time that the Empress has liked the osmanthus cake from the teahouse outside the palace. You can find out by asking around in the teahouse inside the palace.
Eunuch An was confident and was not afraid of them checking.