The voice of the eunuch spies came from outside the door, and Xu Zifan strode into the room. As soon as the queen mother got up to meet her, Furong suddenly knelt down and kowtowed three times, loudly saying: "Prince Regent! The emperor's poisoning must be hidden, how could a little palace maid in Shishu dare to poison the emperor? Prince Regent? , Your Majesty treats you as a mentor and respects you everywhere, and asks the Regent to look into this matter thoroughly in terms of his love for educating the Emperor for so many years!"
The empress dowager's face turned cold, "How can you speak here? The waiter wrote in the suicide note that all three wine glasses were poisoned, why did something happen to the emperor and the queen, only you are the only one who is good? Ai Jia sees this matter. It has nothing to do with you. Come, arrest her and her maid, and interrogate her severely!"
"Slow. Don't worry, the queen mother, there are many doubts about this matter. Since it is said that it was poisoned by Shishu, how can the imperial concubine predict in advance? The imperial concubine and the emperor have a deep friendship, and they should not be the person who poisoned this matter. Well, at least until the emperor wakes up, you can't torture the imperial concubine." After Xu Zifan finished speaking, he went to see the emperor in the inner room, sat down and said, "What happened?"
Furong immediately seized the opportunity to explain everything from inviting the queen to reconciliation to the poisoning of the emperor and the queen. She also emphasized the investigation results. All kinds of evidence showed that Shishu was the one who poisoned him. Below is a suicide note.
Xu Zifan frowned and looked at the Empress Dowager. After watching her for a while, he said, "If I remember correctly, Shishu has never done anything daring and outrageous in the past ten years by your side, right?"
The Empress Dowager was disturbed in her heart, and replied sadly and angrily: "Yeah, Aijia didn't expect her to do such a stupid thing. Damn it, and hurt Yang'er."
Xu Zifan looked away and suddenly said: "Little Shunzi, lead someone to search Shishu's room, and don't let any suspicious clues go away. This king needs to know where her medicine comes from, who she has been in contact with, and what happened. Guan Huang, you can't miss any clues."
"Yes, my lord!" Xiao Shunzi immediately led people over. The queen mother was tense, and then she felt that there was nothing suspicious, so she relaxed. Her medicine has been hidden in the secret compartment, only she knows it, and she only gave it to Shi Shu, and has never disclosed it to anyone, so it is impossible to find out about her.
The queen mother waved back most of the palace servants, leaving only a few of their masters and close palace servants, and then said to Xu Zifan with red eyes: "What can I do now, does the prince regent have rules in mind? A country cannot live without a ruler for a day. , but Yang'er... I don't believe that he has no hope. Find the genius doctor who has healed me. He can be optimistic about Yang'er. Again… "
Xu Zifan waved his hand, "I don't need the Queen Mother to worry about the affairs of the court. The ministers and ministers have their own regulations. Now it is the first priority to find out who murdered the emperor. If the emperor wakes up, he will definitely make the same decision. The queen mother has just taken care of her body. , something happened to the emperor and the queen again, the queen mother must be very sad, the queen mother still quietly takes care of her body. I also know that the queen mother has a motherly heart for the emperor, and she will definitely not worry about the emperor, then the queen mother can take care of the emperor at ease, and the rest of the affairs will deal with it."
The queen mother's heart went up and down with his words, and finally fell to the bottom. This is not right! All this was different from what she had expected. She wanted to kill the emperor and take the emperor's grandson to meddle in the affairs of the state. As a result, the emperor was abolished, but the emperor's grandson was gone. Xu Zifan had no intention of letting her touch the affairs of the state. Why did Xu Zifan refute her without even hesitating? She didn't even say a word of concern for her, which was very different from six years ago.
Suddenly someone came to report that a poison jar and a thick letter had been found in a secret place in the servant's study.
Xu Zifan glanced at the letter in Xiao Shunzi's hand, "Read!"
Xiao Shunzi said aloud: "If the Queen Mother silences me, this letter will be the only evidence against the Queen Mother..."
The queen mother's head buzzed, and she couldn't hear anything. How could she write this, Shishu? !
Of course, this letter was not written by the waiter. She was so timid that she even buried the porcelain bottle containing the medicine, for fear of leaving some abnormal traces, how dare she hide things in her own room? The porcelain vase and the letter were put by Mo Yun. She read the suicide note after the queen mother died, and then wrote a letter imitating the handwriting of the servant book. The letter explained the ins and outs of the Empress Dowager's instructing Shishu to poison the emperor. If she lived well, she would destroy the letter afterwards. If she was silenced, she hoped that someone would find out the letter and know the real murderer.
Mo Yun also found a special paper from the unburned fragments collected these days, and only the Queen Mother is using it in the paper palace. She took the opportunity to stuff the scraps of paper into the crevices under the bookcase, just as they happened to fall into them when they were burning. When the queen mother entered the inner room to see the emperor and queen, she unknowingly told Xiao Shunzi of these things and the location of the queen mother's hidden compartment.
After hearing this, Xu Zifan turned his head and saw Mo Yun glanced at the Queen Mother, and ordered Xiao Shunzi to search the Queen Mother's palace. The queen mother was furious. She never thought that Xu Zifan would not give her face like this. If she was a dignified queen mother, if the guards searched the palace and saw Xiaoyi, how would she meet people in the future? !
But Xiao Shunzi took people away after listening to Xu Zifan's order. Xu Zifan ignored the empress dowager's ugly face, and asked people to invite important officials such as the royal family prince and the prime minister into the palace to deal with the matter together. When Xiao Shunzi found five bottles of harmful palace secret medicines from the secret compartment, and found fragments of calligraphy practice under the bookcase, the evidence was conclusive that the queen mother instructed the waiter to poison and forge a suicide note! Two of the three wine glasses are poisonous, so why the Queen Mother's purpose is self-evident.
Xu Zifan frowned and said solemnly: "Please go to the side hall to rest, please wait for the ministers to discuss this matter."
He made it clear that he wanted to do business, but the Queen Mother stared at him in disbelief, full of anger, "Prince Regent, this is framed! How could Aijia poison the emperor? That's Aijia's own flesh and blood!" She paused again Said, "Zhong Qian, you and I have known each other for more than 20 years. Don't you believe me? Do you know how much I paid for Yang'er? How could I harm him?"
Xu Zifan glanced at the listed evidence, shook his head and said, "The evidence of your murder of the emperor is conclusive, and you and the emperor have been like water and fire for the past six months, so it may not be impossible to do this. When the emperor wakes up, he will tell the ministers how to deal with it, as long as the empress dowager waits with peace of mind, she will send the empress dowager to rest."
Furong hurried forward, "Prince Regent, since the poison was given by the Queen Mother, she must have an antidote, please ask the Prince Regent to let her hand over the antidote!"
Xu Zifan looked at the queen mother, and the queen mother looked at him pleadingly, "I didn't poison, I didn't do it, Zhong Qian, you believe me, you can't lock me up and let the real murderer succeed, Zhong Qian..."
Xu Zifan waved his hand, and the two maids restrained the queen mother from left to right, and took her down forcefully. Then Xiao Shunzi arranged for eight guards to guard the side hall, and the queen mother was not allowed to go out. The queen mother was furious in the side hall. Her plan was obviously successful, and everything was reasonable. Why did the letter from Shishuzang appear? Before she could enjoy the joy of victory, she fell from the cloud to the bottom, which was completely different from what she expected!
Something must have gone wrong, everything was out of her control, and the biggest loss of control was that Xu Zifan didn't protect her at all, he didn't care about her at all! She couldn't figure it out. Xu Zifan asked a genius doctor to treat her and help him return to the palace, and he has always been fine, right? Why is she suddenly unselfish at this time, and she will be convicted when she sees the evidence
She forced herself to calm down and thought carefully about whether there was anything unusual around her. There are so many things that have happened in the past six months, as if all the misfortunes are concentrated together, more than the sum of the bad things she has encountered in the past thirty years or so. She felt that everything was reasonable, but when she thought about it, there was a strangeness, as if everything was drawn by a thread.
The more she thought about it, the more confused she became, her head was like a mess, and she had a headache. She simply stopped thinking about the details, but about the outcome of the whole thing. Now that the emperor is abolished, the queen is abolished, and she is also abolished, who will be the ultimate beneficiary? Those royal families? The emperor's brother
Impossible, Xu Zifan abolished their power when he helped her win the heirloom six years ago, and she has been suppressing them for the past six years, they can't be able to make waves, so who else
After thinking about it, she came to a conclusion that she was most reluctant to admit, they were all abolished, only Xu Zifan benefited the most! He is the regent, and the emperor is lingering on the bed. If he does not abdicate, he can only be Xu Zifan's puppet. Xu Zifan has the final say in the whole country. The Queen Mother covered her face and didn't want to believe it. She thought that Xu Zifan had been infatuated with her for more than 20 years. She hooked her fingers and could make the world fear and revere the Prince Regent to listen to her words. So she was just self-indulgent
She thought of how she had tried to please Xu Zifan in every possible way in order to return to the palace, and a huge sense of shame spread all over her body. After deciding that Xu Zifan was behind the scenes, she thought about everything that happened in the past six months, and she couldn't help feeling chills down her spine. In the past six months, all the people around her have disappeared, and the people around the emperor have changed almost every time. She always thought that this was the result of their mother-son battle, but it was all controlled by Xu Zifan
And Chaotang, how long has it been since she knew about Chaotang? After the emperor was injured, Xu Zifan was in charge. She once asked the Fu family to target Xu Zifan's influence and eliminated many people, but now that I think about it, Xu Zifan didn't respond at all at that time, but the emperor was very rude to the Fu family after that. . Does this mean that her news is wrong and that she is the emperor's person? Then their mother-son tit-for-tat all makes sense!
Although there is no evidence for many things, she has a strong intuition that Xu Zifan did it. After all, Xu Zifan provoking their mother-son relationship is more acceptable to her than his son's unfilial piety. But the most terrifying thing is that even if she is sure that Xu Zifan did this, she can't find any trace of Xu Zifan's intervention, which shows that she doesn't know this person at all. In the past, she thought she could control Xu Zifan. Nian Jingjing's court may be prepared for him, and their mother and son are his pawns!
When suspicion attacks, every move of Xu Zifan turns into ulterior motives. The empress dowager is a self-proclaimed smart woman, but she suddenly found that she was someone else's pawn from beginning to end, and she even thought that the person had a deep friendship with her.
What followed was hatred, overwhelming hatred, and she hated Xu Zifan, the person who played her in the palm of her hand! There is also Mo Yun, since Xu Zifan has bad intentions, then the Mo Yun he sent is definitely not an ordinary person. Isn't the accident of the people around her what happened after Mo Yun came? How can outsiders find out her power so quickly
The queen mother seemed to have found a vent at once. She pushed open the door and said with a cold face: "Aijia is still the queen mother now, not a prisoner. I asked the people of Aijia to come and serve, and Aijia needs to change clothes and make up!"
The eight guards outside the door were all from Xu Zifan. They saw that the queen mother's hair was a little messy, and they might see the royal family later. Dressing and dressing were normal, so they didn't think much about it, and allowed the maid next to the queen mother to enter.
Mo Yun entered the door with three little palace maids. As soon as he entered the door, he noticed that the Queen Mother's eyes were wrong, and immediately made a gesture to the guards with his hands behind him. The guard said in a loud voice, "Wait a minute, the Prince Regent has asked Mo Yun to ask questions, hurry up."
Mo Yun put down the things in his hand and saluted, "The Empress Dowager, the servants will go back when they go."
The queen mother's face sank, strode towards Mo Yun, and shouted to the three little palace maids: "Catch her!"
The three little palace maids were all from Mo Yun, so naturally they didn't listen to the queen mother. Mo Yun quickly stepped out of the door and said tentatively, "The queen mother, the regent's servants only asked questions in the past, and the servants will not talk nonsense."
The two guards drew their knives and crossed to block the door, separating the queen mother and Mo Yun. The queen mother stared at Mo Yun and gritted her teeth: "You are a servant of the master, you must be the one who framed the Aijia, and the Aijia can't spare you!"
Mo Yun knew that so many things had happened, and the Queen Mother was the party involved. As long as you looked out of the overall situation and looked at the results, it was not difficult to guess who was the final winner. . After trying out the Queen Mother's current thoughts, Mo Yun didn't need to confuse her with her anymore, and turned away without saying a word.
The queen mother was stunned for a moment, then angry. She guessed it was one thing, and seeing Mo Yun ignore her with her own eyes was another. She always thought that she was aloof and the most honorable woman in the world, but she didn't expect that even Mo Yun would not look down on her. This was a huge blow to her self-esteem. She pointed to Mo Yun and ordered, "You take her Arrest, didn't you hear? You want to disobey Yizhi? Aijia is still the Queen Mother!"
The guard said coldly, "Please go back to the queen mother's room."
No matter what the Queen Mother said, the guards responded to this sentence. Obviously, these guards were all under Xu Zifan's orders, otherwise it would be impossible to hesitate at all. The Queen Mother's heart sank again. How many people in the palace are under the command of Xu Zifan? Their mother and son only care about killing each other, how many things have they neglected
Now she can only pin her hopes on the emperor, the emperor will wake up, as long as she and the emperor explain all the misunderstandings, the emperor will not let Xu Zifan go. There are clan princes and several important ministers. In such a big matter, they should help the emperor to eradicate Xu Zifan, right? And once Xu Zifan falls, the power in his hands can be distributed to other ministers. She doesn't believe that those princes and ministers can't see the good things that are related to interests. This is her last hope.
While waiting for the minister to enter the palace, Xu Zifan went into the inner room to see the emperor again. The emperor's coma was caused by the sudden weakness and severe pain. Now the effect of the medicine has finished, and he has also taken the medicine boiled by the imperial doctor. The situation has stabilized. Xu Zifan tucked his quilt and took the opportunity to press a few acupuncture points on him. The emperor woke up as soon as he retracted his hand.
Furong next to him rushed over and said excitedly: "Your Majesty! Your Majesty, you are finally awake, and I'll call an imperial physician!"
The emperor stared blankly at the back of Furong running out to call the imperial physician, and frowned slightly, "What's wrong with me? Prince Regent, why are you here?"
Xu Zifan said solemnly: "Your Majesty, you and the Queen have been poisoned on their wine glasses. This poison is domineering. The imperial doctor diagnosed that you and the Queen will only be lingering on the sickbed and the soup will continue in the future."
When the emperor was struck by lightning, he remembered everything. The severe pain all over his body before he fell into a coma made him shudder, and then his face was pale, and he couldn't believe it: "You said that I will linger on the sickbed? No! Impossible!" He tried He propped up on the bed to get up, but he didn't have the strength at all. He fell back as soon as he held up a little, and just such a movement made him gasp for breath, and his body was very weak.
The imperial physician came to see the emperor, and what he said was still the same, and his life was saved, but in the future, he could only linger on the sick bed and could no longer move freely. There was nothing they could do in the entire imperial hospital. The emperor clenched the quilt and stared at Xu Zifan fiercely, "Who is it! Who poisoned me?"
Xu Zifan said: "The evidence of people and materials found all point to the queen mother, but the emperor, the queen mother has a mother's heart for you, and will not harm you like this, you..."
"Enough! It's her! It must be her! What kind of mother's heart? Only you can believe her nonsense, she is a viper and scorpion woman!" The emperor instantly understood the matter of the two wine glasses, "She must be thinking Poisoning me and Furong, it must be! I know her best, she used me to control power at first, and now I don't listen to her, she wants to get rid of me, and then use the queen's child as her great empress dowager! She is in Where? Let me arrest her, arrest her!"
The emperor had thought about this matter before he became the empress. He thought about whether Fu Qiuwen would threaten his status by giving birth to a child. In addition to the resentment caused by Xu Zifan's "heart of loving mother", he harmed the empress dowager in an instant. There is no doubt about him. In his eyes, the queen mother is such a person, and he did not guess wrong. Xu Zifan just made evidence of what they did and put it on the bright side.
Xu Zifan said to the emperor: "Calm down, the queen mother is now in the side hall, and the minister has invited the royal family and several important ministers into the palace, and the minister will bring them to see you later."
Xu Zifan led the crowd out, leaving Furong to accompany the emperor on purpose. Furong knelt beside the bed, holding the emperor's hand tightly and weeping. But this is the end, she can only find a chance to take herself out and kill the queen mother. She sadly told the emperor what the Queen Mother said and did after he was poisoned, that the Queen Mother wanted to manage the affairs of the state with the Regent, that the Queen Mother wanted to lock her up, that the Queen Mother forged the suicide note of the waiter and so on.
The most important thing is that she analyzed the current situation for the emperor. The imperial hospital has nothing to do with the poison, and the only hope for detoxification lies in the queen mother. The queen mother was bitten to death and refused to admit it, and no antidote was found in the queen mother's palace, so the only way to go is to interrogate the queen mother. It's just that the queen mother is the emperor's biological mother. I am afraid that the royal family and the ministers will not agree to do so. Besides, with the relationship between the regent and the queen mother, it is impossible for the queen mother to be interrogated without protecting the queen mother. It is best to lock the queen mother first and let her Do this in private.
The more the emperor listened, the more hatred in his eyes, and he had lost the slightest blood and affection for the queen mother. He made a gloomy decision, "Just do as you said, be sure to find the antidote!"
Five princes came from the royal family, three were the emperor's uncles, two were the emperor's brothers, and six important officials including the prime minister and the general of the township also arrived. Xu Zifan ordered Xiao Shunzi to tell them the cause and effect, and asked the Taiyuan Hospital to tell them the diagnosis results, and showed them the evidence they found before taking them in to see the emperor.
The princes and ministers are always in shock. The iron evidence is there. If the queen mother can still turn over, it means that the emperor's filial piety has touched the sky. However, the emperor did not intend to protect the queen mother. He never saw the queen mother, so he directly ordered the queen mother to be locked in the dark room to reflect. No one has an opinion, but they are also amazed at the ruthlessness of the mother and son. A dark room is a small room without any light. There is nothing in it. Wouldn't it be crazy for the Queen Mother to be locked in it? This emperor really got the true inheritance of his mother.
The emperor also ordered them to find a famous doctor in the world and come to the palace to treat him. There should always be an antidote for poisoning. He firmly believed this. Before the empress dowager was so weak that she often fainted, it could be cured. Why can't he
The emperor has just been poisoned and is unwilling to abdicate or give up the opportunity to recover. No one can object, but everyone knows that there is little hope, and the body has collapsed. How can there be an antidote to restore the body? Thinking of seeking medical treatment with great fanfare, the news will definitely be leaked. How much trouble will it be when people are disturbed and troubles arise? Everyone frowned, only the emperor's two brothers were happy.
They lost in the struggle for succession, but now that the emperor has become a cripple, he must not be cured, and he will have to abdicate after a while. The emperor doesn't have a son, isn't this their chance? Even if they can't become emperors, it's fine for the emperor to adopt a son. The two looked at each other and became rivals at this moment.
The emperor suddenly collapsed, panic and fear in his heart outweighed everything else, and he was only anxious to heal his body and take revenge. For government affairs, just report it to him after negotiation, no need to make any changes. He told them to govern as usual in the future, and the ministers on Xu Zifan's side were naturally happy. Some people felt that it was inappropriate, but considering that Xu Zifan was so powerful, he didn't want to be a standout to object, so the matter was settled.
Xiao Shunzi naturally took care of everything around the emperor, and the palace affairs of the harem were also handed over to Furong, and the queen sent it back to her palace to be taken care of. After talking for such a long time, the emperor was obviously weak and unable to regain his energy, so Xu Zifan and others retired one after another.
The queen mother is still waiting to clear up the misunderstanding with the emperor. She has found the most suitable reason for everything. Even the poisoning incident has been thought of and pushed to Mo Yun, but she did not expect that she would only wait for four strong men. Mammy, shut her mouth and shut her in the dark room!