Emperor Yuanfeng had just sent Mrs. He away and was feeling exhausted.
Mrs. He has always emphasized that someone deliberately framed her for falling into the water, and she also pointed the finger at Qi Yunxi.
Emperor Yuanfeng had a headache.
It's not that he values Qi Yunxi more than Mrs. He, but Qi Yunxi brought up the incident from that year again, saying that Mrs. He hated her so much because she knew the secret from that year.
Emperor Yuanfeng shuddered whenever he thought of this.
He is old, and when people get old, they like to reminisce about the past.
But when he thought of the past, he thought of Queen Hu and the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess.
These people had been by his side, but without exception they all ended up with a bad ending.
If my aunt also knew what happened back then, she would definitely target Qi Yunxi. I just don’t know what she would think of me
He picked up Xu Shun's memorial, and the old man kept shouting that he wanted to resign.
If it were in the past, Emperor Yuanfeng would have tried to persuade him to stay a few times. After all, it was not uncommon for children and grandchildren to commit crimes in the officialdom. However, the commotion in Xu Shun's family was really too much. He rubbed his brows and was about to write his comments when he heard Eunuch Xia rushing in: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager has fainted!"
Emperor Yuanfeng immediately rushed to the Empress Dowager's palace.
At the same time, Mrs. He came out of the palace in a bad mood. Su Yao and Su Rong had been waiting for her for a long time. When the people guarding downstairs saw Mrs. He leaving the palace, they hurried upstairs to inform Su Yao and Su Rong.
The two of them went downstairs together, and Mrs. He looked at them with a wry smile and shook her head.
Su Yao hurriedly shook her hand to comfort her, and waited until she got on the carriage before asking softly, "Didn't His Majesty express his opinion?"
"Yes." Mrs. He didn't quite understand: "This time I fell into the river and it was obviously not an accident, but His Majesty has no intention of investigating it strictly."
"Perhaps, it's because someone has already gone to His Majesty to spread the news in advance." Su Yao leaned back on the pillow calmly. Seeing Madam He looking at him, he lowered his voice even more: "Based on your grandmother's understanding of His Majesty, if His Majesty is sorry for the late Queen, how will he treat you in the future?"
"Of course, I will double the compensation." Mrs. He sneered: "So hasn't he been doing this all these years?"
"Yes, but if the rumors you told me some time ago are true, do you think His Majesty wants you to know these things?" Su Yao saw that Mrs. He looked serious, so he added: "In other words, if His Majesty knew that you also knew that Qi Yunxi seduced His Majesty, how would he treat you?"
Naturally, I feel guilty and uneasy.
Mrs. He understood immediately and frowned, "Qi Yunxi deliberately brought this incident into that incident, wanting His Majesty to think that I knew what happened back then and deliberately took revenge on Qi Yunxi?"
If that's the case, then it would explain Emperor Yuanfeng's ambiguous attitude.
Mrs. He was even more disdainful of Qi Yunxi, but at the same time she was also very powerless. After all, as Su Yao said, it was very likely that Emperor Yuanfeng believed that she was deliberately causing trouble for Qi Yunxi and framing him through a self-torture trick.
How do you explain this
If she had to explain, the first thing she had to say was that she knew that Qi Yunxi had seduced Emperor Yuanfeng when Queen Hu was ill.
But can I say this out loud
Saying it out loud itself represents failure in another sense.
Mrs. He clenched her fists: "How insidious!"
"You don't have to be so angry, grandma." Su Yao leaned over and held Mrs. He's hand and shook it gently, then smiled slyly, "Fortunately, I knew early on that things might go back and forth. After all, we have to deal with the second assistant, so I have another way."
Mrs. He soon found out what method Su Yao used.
Because she was almost in danger, Old Madam Su, Old Madam Wang and others came to the He family. She returned home and exchanged a few words with Old Madam Su and Old Madam Wang, telling them how she escaped from danger and how she came back. Before she had sat down for long, she saw Young Master Wang running into the flower hall.
Young Master Wang had been with Su Rong these days and had become very calm, but this time he ran without any grace at all.
Mrs. Wang saw this and couldn't help but scold: "What are you talking about? What's the matter with you being so impatient?"
Young Master Wang ran out of breath, but he still finished his words in one go: "Madam, Madam, something happened! Master Xu was captured by the Royal Guards!"
Uncle Xu
No one reacted for a moment.
When they finally reacted, the three old ladies looked at each other, shock in their eyes.
Xu Chong was captured by the Jinyiwei? !
"Do you know why?!" Mrs. He glanced at Su Yao and was the first to react. She hurriedly asked, "What's going on?!"
"I don't know." Young Master Wang shook his head like a rattle: "But there is another group of people going to the Tong family..."
Mrs. He immediately understood that this was the other method Su Yao was talking about.
But what kind of other method could have allowed Emperor Yuanfeng to use thundering means to capture Xu Chong and Qi Yunxi at the same time
Su Yao was calm and composed. She gently answered everyone's questions: "You should all remember that the Queen Mother once lost a princess, right?"
Everyone was stunned, and then Old Lady Wang was the first to react: "Remember, the Queen Mother stood up to support the Emperor. One of the reasons was that the Queen Mother criticized the deposed Emperor, accusing him of disregarding human ethics and having no blood relationship... After the Emperor ascended the throne, he ordered the whole country to search for the princess's whereabouts."
"Her Royal Highness the Princess will not come back." Su Yao sighed softly: "She is staying with the girl from the Qi family and will never come back."
The room was silent for a while, and Mrs. He asked in shock: "Did Li's aunt and nephew kill the princess?!"
"Yes." Su Yao thought of the things that the fifth prince wrote in the manifesto in the previous life, and the little princess who was only four years old but died in the fight between adults. Tears flashed in his eyes: "Li's aunt and nephew were afraid that she would leak the news to Queen Mother Tian after returning to the palace, so they killed the little princess to silence her."
Su Rong was somewhat shocked, and at the same time, he looked at Su Yao deeply: "Yaoyao, how do you know all this?"
"Xu Huixian told me." Su Yao smiled and said, "I have people planted around Feng Yuanqing. I know everything Feng Yuanqing said and did to Xu Huixian. Because of this, I know that Qi has enshrined a perpetual lamp in a temple, spending a huge amount of money on lamp oil and incense every year. What's more, they invite monks to pray for the souls of the deceased on fixed days every year, so..."
Everyone understood what she had not said.