Mrs. Hu smiled and said: "If Song Sikong didn't know, how could he insist on forcing Miss Song to marry His Highness Ninth? Although His Highness Ninth is the empress's biological flesh and blood, to be honest, I don't like him. . When His Highness the Ninth Prince was deposed and demoted to Hengdi, the Empress intended to let the maid accompany him, but the maid forced the Empress to allow the maid to stay... and prepared to follow the young lady... "
Her eyes darkened, "It's a pity that the servant is incompetent. He asked himself to accompany the young lady, but in the end he couldn't protect the young lady!"
Wei Changying wiped his tears silently, looking confused.
There was silence in the room for a moment, and Mrs. Hu continued: "My life has long been willingly placed in the hands of the empress, letting the empress make the decision. The empress only has a son, the Ninth Highness, but even the maid is not willing to accompany the Ninth Highness. For such a master, Song Sikong was determined to marry Miss Song to him, simply because Miss Song was not Song Sikong's son at all. She was the flesh and blood of Emperor Ai of Wei and the golden branches and jade leaves of the former Wei Dynasty. That’s all!”
"Then they have the same father and mother?! If they get married, it would be incest - forget it about my uncle, I think he wants to take revenge on Emperor Wei Ai! But where is your mother-in-law? What does she mean?! Shen Xun is She is her own flesh and blood, right? Even if she is not satisfied, how can she harm him like this?" Wei Changying asked in surprise.
Mrs. Hu mumbled, "But did His Highness the Ninth Prince finally marry Miss Song?"
Wei Changying bit his lower lip and suddenly remembered that when Song Zaishui broke off the engagement, there seemed to be speculation that the Queen Gu did not really want to get married. At that time, she thought that the queen valued the support of the Donghu Liu family more - at that time This is understandable under the circumstances.
Although the Jiangnan Song family was no worse than the Donghu Liu family in terms of family status, Song Zaishui was much better than Liu Ruoyu when it came to choosing the crown princess. But the Song family was literary, and the Liu family was martial arts... At that time, the world of the Wei Dynasty was not very peaceful. Shen Xun's maternal family, the Gu family in Hongzhou, also favored civil servants. The prince really needed the help of forces in the military... Marriage was of course the fastest and surest way.
Therefore, even though the Wei family and the Song family were vaguely aware that Mrs. Gu was regretting the scar left by Song on Shui's forehead after she was deposed, they were very much in favor of dissolving the marriage, but they all considered the situation and no one suspected what was going on...
Wei Changying couldn't help but ask: "Then when did your mother-in-law know about this?!" A sudden flash of light flashed in her mind and she blurted out, "You just said it twice, Concubine Deng confessed?!"
Mrs. Hu said with a faint smile: "That's right! Emperor Wei Ai didn't dare to tell anyone about Mrs. Sikong's hidden things. Who in the palace who knew about it at that time was not silenced? If Concubine Deng was not forced to tell her, what would happen to my mother-in-law? Maybe you know?"
"Your mother-in-law can actually force Concubine Deng to confess?!" Wei Changying frowned, "I remember that although the concubine did not compete with your mother-in-law for the post, your mother-in-law can't do anything to her, right? She After all, she is the direct cousin of Emperor Wei Ai!"
Mrs. Hu said contemptuously: "Mrs. Wei, you don't really think that Emperor Wei Ai values the relationship between direct cousins with Concubine Deng, do you?"
Seeing Wei Changying looking at her questioningly, Mrs. Hu said, "To tell you the truth, the reason why Concubine Deng was never able to become Emperor Wei Ai's queen was because Emperor Wei Ai was unwilling to make her! Why not? Haha, this matter It would be even longer to talk about it. In short, it was Empress Dowager Deng who was the aunt of Concubine Deng and the mother of Emperor Ai of Wei. Although the Deng family was the maternal family of Emperor Ai of Wei, Emperor Ai of Wei always treated the nobles equally, even if they were Empress Dowager Deng insisted on making Concubine Deng the Queen of the Yuan Dynasty, but Emperor Wei Ai suspected that Queen Mother Deng was trying to continue the regency... He insisted on contacting the Liu family privately and established the Liu family as the Queen of the Yuan Dynasty... "
She said cheerfully, "You see, Concubine Deng entered the palace together with the Empress Liu of the Yuan Dynasty, but her first child and only biological flesh and blood, Prince Ying, was only sixth among the princes! If the princesses are included, That’s ranked beyond ten! This shows how favored she was when Queen Mother Deng was alive! Prince Ying was born after Queen Mother Deng died!”
Wei Changying wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes, calmed down, and said in deep thought: "According to what you said, Emperor Wei Ai only treated Deng Guifei like this, and it is even less likely to establish Prince Ying as the heir apparent. Then why did the Qian family still have to do this after deposing the queen? Attacking King Ying? After all, Concubine Deng's status is not low, and her background is not bad! Even if Emperor Wei Ai doesn't value her cousin relationship and forces her to die, is it worth it if the Queen Qian is jealous? When did the Emperor Ai's palace become less crowded? Concubine Deng had never been treated like a pampered woman. Why did Qian have to fight against her after she was deposed? Is it because she was second only to the queen? "
Regarding this question, Mrs. Hu chuckled and said: "You know how the deposed Qian family fell into the eyes of Emperor Ai of Wei and became his successor. Without the introduction of the Liu family of Donghu, the deposed Qian family even met the emperor. There was no chance, so how could he be welcomed as his successor? But after the Qian family was deposed and became empress, not only did she become more and more alienated from the Liu family, but she even slandered and forced to death the eldest son of the Liu family of the Yuan Dynasty for the sake of his own son. Prince, Crown Prince! Do you think the Liu family will give up?"
Guard Chief Ying said in confusion: "You mean, King Ying is the Liu family who did it?"
"How could the Liu family of Donghu not be on guard against the deposed Queen Qian's falling out and disowning her? However, they didn't expect the temperament of Wei Ai Emperor... In those years when he doted on the deposed Queen Qian, it was as if he had no brains. Likewise, whatever Empress Qian says is what she says!" Madam Hu said calmly, "You must know that before Emperor Qian was deposed, even though Emperor Wei Ai had several favored concubines who were good to Empress Liu, none of them did so. There is no way a special pet can be treated like someone who obeys his advice! Donghu Liu made a miscalculation, so he failed to save the blood of Empress Yuan."
"But when the Liu family of the Eastern Hu Dynasty paved the way for the deposed Qian family, they were not in vain." Hu said with a smile, "The King of Ying was killed under the instruction of the Liu family. This is what the deposed Qian family feels like. It's very clear. But the person who did it happened to be her confidant. Afterwards, she also led the trouble to Concubine Huo Shu, who had nothing to do with the matter at the time. After the deposed Qian family, she relied on her pampering and did not take the concubine seriously... At that time, Emperor Wei Ai was doting on the deposed Queen Qian. After asking casually, he ordered Concubine Huo Shu and others to be executed and the matter was forcibly settled! Do you think the deposed Queen Qian can explain it clearly? "
Guard Chief Ying frowned and said, "Liu only did this one thing? Or?"
"Of course it's impossible - the Liu family has suffered such a big loss and is always looking at you like a wolf. If you don't give enough credit to the Qian family, how can you swallow this?" Mrs. Hu shook her head and said, "Let's put it this way. , Without the manpower left by the Liu family of the Yuan Dynasty, and the Liu family of Donghu continued to cultivate it after the death of the Yuan Dynasty, my mother-in-law might not have been able to sit in the post. "
"Sure enough, the reason why your mother-in-law was able to ascend to the lower position has something to do with the Liu family!" Wei Changying raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, and sighed, "So when your mother-in-law planned to terminate the engagement with the Song family, she immediately chose Liu family?”
Mrs. Hu smiled lightly: "That's right!"
She thought for a while and said, "My maid, let me continue to tell you when my mother-in-law knew Miss Song's life experience. It was when my mother-in-law and Concubine Deng dealt with the Qian family after the deposed Queen - Concubine Deng's favor, from beginning to end, It's just like that. It's not a loss of favor, but I don't think it's a high favor. But my wife is different. My wife is the daughter of a branch of the Gu family in Hongzhou. To be honest, her status in the Gu family was mediocre. It’s all because of my empress’s beauty, which is no less than that of the deposed Queen Qian!”
Mrs. Hu sighed, "It turned out that after the empress entered the palace, she was really favored because of her sex, and she was promoted successively. When the empress entered the palace, she was only a seventh-rank concubine. Within two years, she was promoted to a ninth-rank concubine from the second rank. Chief Concubine—Do you think the Qian family will be able to sit still after being deposed?"
Wei Chang Ying Zhui thought about the first time he entered the Wei Palace, and when he looked up under the Danqi, he saw the same Queen Gu, with a fragrant beauty, and eyes as intoxicating as spring water... He lowered his eyes and said: "Concubine Deng was misled and deposed. The Qian family has a vengeance for killing their son, and your mother-in-law joined forces to deal with the deposed Qian family in order to protect themselves. This is not a secret. I heard about this when I first married in the imperial capital. Since we are allies, why can your mother-in-law ask Concubine Deng to confess? "
"Do you know Meng Jian San?" Mrs. Hu stretched out her fingers and raked her temple hair and asked with a smile.
Wei Changying's face changed slightly: "What does it have to do with this thing?"
"You also know about the ancient prescription found in the palace's warehouse, right?" Hu said lightly, "That one is fake."
Duanmu Xinmiao had already mentioned this conclusion, so Wei Changying was not surprised. She remembered the promise Gu made to Duanmu Xinmiao after the deposed emperor, and asked tentatively: "Does your mother-in-law have the truth in her hands?"
Hu shook his head, but after thinking for a while, he nodded again: "I don't know whether that prescription is true or false. After all, it has been two hundred years since the great empress Xu Fei, and it is not necessarily true that rumors were passed down in the past? In short, the dream in the hands of the empress The prescriptions prepared are far less magical than those recorded in Concubine Xu's time, but they are better than most of the Zhuyan prescriptions. When you first met the empress, she was already old and had several grandchildren. But it looks like I was about the same age as you at that time... The empress has been taking that dream, but I don’t know whether it’s true or not.”
Wei Changying asked: "Then where did your mother-in-law's Meng Meng San Fangzi... come from?"
"You may not believe it when I say it. My mother-in-law was born in a branch of the Gu family. She lost her father when she was young and relied on her widowed mother to support her. Although the Gu family had financial aid, she still lived a hard life." Mrs. Hu muttered. , "It seems to be like Mrs. Sikong when she was young. Speaking of which, Mrs. Sikong is a little better than my mother-in-law. Mrs. Sikong was also a parent when she died. Far away, Hongzhou is located in the south of the Yangtze River. Things are prone to moisture and mold in rainy days, so On sunny days before and after the rainy season, things are dried there. "
"When the empress was a child, she went out to dry some things at home. By chance, she found an ancient book in the corner... It was hidden in the interlayer of the ancient book. The empress found it when she was flipping through it."
Chief Wei Ying was startled and said: "What a coincidence? What about the one in the warehouse?"
"It has always been in the storehouse." Madam Hu said seriously, "Actually, when the queen came to the palace, she accidentally discovered that the prescription in the storehouse was actually the same as the prescription that the queen had obtained when she was young. After she dreamed about it, she felt very sad. Surprised. But the prescription in the warehouse, except that the medicine is the same as the legendary dream powder, does not look like it is for people to eat - so expensive! So the queen concluded that someone wanted to hide the real prescription that the queen got when she was young. , deliberately made a fake prescription using the brain of a young child to confuse right and wrong! The great concubine Xu may not have actually used the fake prescription, but she just told Empress Feng to take revenge on Empress Feng! "
"Tell me how Meng Meng San got Concubine Deng to confess." Wei Changying rubbed his eyebrows again and said, "Since Concubine Deng didn't pamper her when she was young, even if she stays in her prime forever, it seems to have no meaning. Isn't it big? Why can this dream make her confess... The word "confession" is not something that can be used normally, right?" (To be continued)