After getting up from a nap, Grandma Yun came to report: "Madam, Wan Su's family has come in. Do you want to meet them?"
Li Wei thought about it carefully and said: "I'm gone. You go and see me for me. Let Qingxiang reward her family with the pile of things last night. After all, she followed me for no credit but also hard work. . Allocate another one hundred taels of silver to buy a new set of clothes for burial."
Grandma Yun agreed and went.
These messy things made Li Wei upset. Now that she has so many people, she doesn't need to worry about everything. Just open your mouth and someone will take care of it.
Her focus was on the large pile of records sent by Luo Chong, hoping to find some clues in it that might open up the whole situation.
The first person to be recorded was Lan Hui, Wan Su's roommate. Li Wei carefully read line by line and found that there was nothing special in Lan Hui's remarks. The second record is of Chun Rong in the sewing room. This Chunrong entered the palace last year. She was only fifteen years old when she entered the palace. She was ordinary in appearance, but her hands were very dexterous and she could tie many patterns, so she joined the needlework bureau.
Wansu was kind to Chunrong, and Chunrong later made a skirt for Wansu in order to express her gratitude. Wansu also showed her the skirt, and it was indeed a good craftsmanship. After she moved into Chongqing Palace, Chunrong also became a girl in the sewing room of Chongqing Palace, and her work was much less.
Chun Rong's words were full of sadness and panic. She didn't accept Wan Su's death and didn't understand why Wan Su did what he did.
Li Wei had already read Chun Rong's confession and thought to find a suitable time to call Chun Rong over and ask.
After reading for a while, her eyes felt tired, so she asked Haruka to find a box, and she put all the confessions in it and locked it. After getting used to going to bed early, my work and rest routine gradually adjusted, and it was not as difficult to fall asleep as it was the first few days after I came back. After all, this body is your own, and it is easy to adapt to it.
She lay down, and the servants all left after seeing her sleeping. Li Wei pulled up the quilt and closed his eyes to get ready to sleep. She didn't know how long she slept, but she felt thirsty and woke up.
Just as he was about to call someone, he heard the servants on night duty outside muttering something not far from the window. Li Wei frowned and secretly said that these people were becoming more and more unruly. She stopped calling anyone and got out of bed by herself, went to the window and listened carefully.
But it was Lan Hui's voice: "You can say these words indiscriminately, and you will make me angry if you hear them. You should be smarter and find out who said these words."
The other voice should be Xiangxiu's, and the little girl was heard saying: "It's because Sister Wansu wanted to die because she couldn't think of it, and I didn't force her to do it. How come it's your fault?"
That's what it was for. Regarding Wan Su's death, it was said to the outside world that she wanted to bury the late emperor, but people who had friendship with Wan Su in the past probably didn't believe it, so they naturally said anything in private. If she can't even control these people in the palace, how can she control more people
Li Wei coughed, and the waiter outside was so scared that he didn't even dare to make a sound. Li Wei called out: "Lan Hui, come in!"
Nalan Hui was frightened to death, secretly pinched the two little palace maids who were spreading the gossip, and promised tremblingly: "Yes, ma'am."
Not even a candle was lit in the room, and it was pitch black. Lan Hui lit an oil lamp, opened the curtain and walked in. Li Wei was sitting on the edge of the bed with her hair disheveled and a piece of clothing draped over her body.
"Empress, what are your orders?" Lan Hui asked cautiously.
"Tomorrow morning you go and gather the eunuchs and maids from Chongqing Palace together and explain the palace rules to them. You reiterate to them how to deal with gossiping and gossiping."
Lan Hui knelt down and begged: "Your Majesty, please calm down."
Li Wei said angrily: "If I can't manage these people in my own palace, why should I care about the affairs of the Sixth Palace? If anyone I hear talk nonsense will follow the palace rules."
"yes."
Li Wei continued the order. She didn't want anyone to spread it randomly and then make a fuss about it.
When you have something to do, life becomes less difficult. She did not take a nap that day and was studying the transcripts in the study. Lan Hui reported outside: "Your Majesty, Madam has come in to see you."
Today is not the day to enter the palace, and I have not made an appointment before. Why did you come suddenly? Li Wei vaguely knew what was going on, so she asked the palace servants to bring her mother to the study.
When mother and daughter met, Mrs. Fu did not give her daughter a big gift this time. But seeing the anger on her face, Li Wei had to be careful with her. I personally made tea and brought it over, serving it carefully.
Mrs. Fu took the tea bowl, her face still as pale as the ashes at the bottom of a pot. Li Wei dismissed all the people serving in front of him and asked them to wait in the corridor over there.
After the irrelevant people left, Li Wei asked cautiously: "Mother, are you here about Sixth Brother?"
Mrs. Fu said aggressively: "You still know that you have a sixth brother?"
Li Wei lowered his head and said, "Sixth brother has always been the best friend with me, and we are from the same mother. How could I not know this?"
Mrs. Fu sneered and said: "You still remember that he was raised by me and is your brother. Then let me ask you, why did you let him go to Yunnan? If he gets angry, he will follow him to do mischief, and you will do mischief with him? You are still young and naive, aren't you? Now that you are the Queen Mother, why don't you think more about your family?"
Li Wei didn't say a word in the face of his mother's accusations. No matter what his elders said, even if they were unpleasant words, he just listened and there was no need to talk back. This was her upbringing.
Mrs. Fu scolded Li Wei, but when she saw that Li Wei didn't speak, she became even more annoyed: "You are talking, are you mute?"
"The matter has been decided. What else does mother want me to say?"
"What are you talking about? He hasn't left Beijing yet. You have to use the power in your hands to force him to stay. It's okay if he really doesn't want to stay in Beijing. Then go to a place nearby. Go to Shanxi, further away. Shandong is fine, but I don’t agree with him going to Yunnan.”
Before, Sixth Brother went to Shandong because of her persistence. Now she regrets it, and at the same time, she doesn't want to embarrass Sixth Brother.
"Mother, please fulfill Brother Six's wish. Wouldn't it be better for him to go out to practice for a few years, and then come back when his future is stable? No one else dares to touch him once he has the qualifications."
"Who, who would touch our family, who lives so impatiently?"
Fu's momentum was a bit arrogant and domineering. Li Wei was startled. Is the woman in front of her still the cowardly and timid mother in her memory? Or is she still the mother who follows her uncle's lead? Just because she became the queen mother, she became careless. How much has changed in my mother's mentality? Why didn't she notice it before
(End of chapter)