Sheng Weiqiao turned around and saw Shu Zhaoyi, who was quite haggard, with a big belly and holding on to the palace lady's legs, walking towards him with some difficulty.
"Empress Zhaoyi!" Sheng Weiqiao was a little surprised at how old she was. Although she had known for a long time that Shu Zhaoyi was not young at all, but because she had never witnessed the scene of the Shu sisters looking as beautiful as young girls, she had the impression The two beloved concubines in the novel have always looked more charming than others.
However, at this moment, Shu Zhaoyi, although the beauty of the past can be vaguely seen in her outline, her skin is no longer as tender as fat and as smooth as porcelain. Looking at the corners of her eyes, there are already dense fine lines, and the long hair is tied into a Lingyun bun. Although her hair is thick and her black hair is still there, when she gets closer, she can see that she already has some hair that cannot be concealed.
"Your Majesty is pregnant, please be careful!" Although the Shu sisters had no good intentions when they wronged Sheng Weiqiao before, but if one of the two sisters died and the other grew old, Sheng Weiqiao himself had a colorful life that was enviable, and now she also wronged Shu Zhaoyi. He couldn't bear any thoughts of resentment and revenge. After being surprised, he nodded towards her and said pleasantly, "If it's cold in the spring, you don't have to stand in the wind for a long time."
"The princess." Shu Zhaoyi pursed her lips and said softly, "The queen...is she really gone?"
Sheng Weiqiao didn't realize what she meant by asking at first, but he soon came to his senses and frowned: "The two catalpa coffins are inside. If Zhaoyi is worried, can you please go and take a look in person?"
"..." Upon hearing this, Shu Zhaoyi stretched out her legs and gently covered her mouth. She seemed to think for a while, then pursed her lips and laughed softly. After all, the concubine who had been doting on her for many years, although she was now showing her age, was still the same. Various styles.
She said slowly, "Thank you so much, princess!"
He walked past Sheng Weiqiao, went to pay homage to the Queen Mother and the Empress, and finally supported the palace servant's legs and knelt down tremblingly behind the filial curtain, looking very docile.
In fact, according to the rules, as the grandson-in-law of the Queen Mother and the nephew-in-law of the Queen, Sheng Weiqiao should also act as a filial wife when Emperor Xuanjing had no children.
In Bu Naoruming's situation, she didn't kneel down. Who dared to remind her
At that time, Sheng Weiqiao looked at Shu Zhaoyi for a moment, frowned, and called a palace servant who looked like a steward to the side: "Where is Chi Zuosi?"
"Chi Zuosi poisoned the Queen Mother and killed the Queen Mother very much. He was guilty of a heinous crime and has been punished." The palace man's trembling words made Sheng Weiqiao slightly startled, and then Minghong came over, looked at the person in front of him, and whispered: "Then What happened?"
Seeing the palace man begging to speak, she raised her voice slightly, "No prevarication!!!"
"... To return to the princess, no... no, the Queen Mother!" The palace man saw sweat on his forehead. He hesitated for a while, but did not dare to hide it, and whispered, "The Queen Mother... The Queen Mother felt discouraged because of the incident involving Chongxin Hou. I felt cold, so soon after I returned to Xinshou Palace, I ordered Chi Zuosi to get the poison, and after I personally forced the Queen to take it, I drank it myself!"
"When the Chief Supervisor of the Foreign Affairs Bureau found out, he said that Marquis Chongxin had just committed suicide out of fear of crime. If Fu, the Queen Mother and the Empress Dowager also committed suicide on their own and spread the news, the remnants of the Meng family would definitely say that Prince Fu had murdered them! "
"In order to prevent Prince Pinghong from being wronged, the Chief Foreign Supervisor led his men to kill Chi Zuosi, and invited the Prince to enter the palace to take charge of the overall situation in the name of the murder of the Queen Mother and Empress by the confidants of Marquis Chongxin during his lifetime!"
"The Queen Mother forced the Queen to take Dongzhen poison with her own legs?" Sheng Weiqiao was surprised, and Dong Zhi asked, "Could it be that the Queen Mother believed Meng Guiyu, and the Queen Mother of Yongwanzhe already knew it?!"
Otherwise, even if Queen Mother Meng doesn't want to live anymore, she might not be willing to let her long-awaited grandson die together, right
"My servant doesn't know." The palace man didn't know whether it was true or not, he lowered his head and stood timidly, with sincerity and fear.
"...I'll go east!" Sheng Weiqiao frowned, thought for a while, and waved his legs.
The palace man secretly breathed a sigh of relief and was about to leave, but Sheng Weiqiao said again, "Wait a minute!"
Her heart suddenly rose to her throat.
"Go and ask Shu Zhaoyi to go to the back hall and shut up!" At that time, women were already entering the palace one after another to express their condolences. Seeing Sheng Weiqiao in the mourning hall, they all came over to pay their respects and exchange greetings.
Sheng Weiqiao exchanged some brief polite words with them, and then said to the palace officials, "He's on his way over!"
After a while, she shook off the ladies and went to the back hall. She saw that Shu Zhaoyi was already walking there in boredom, turning tea bowls. She raised her eyebrows, waved away, and asked straight to the point: "Zhaoyi, what's going on with the Queen Mother and the Empress?" ?”
"I just want to tell the Queen Mother the truth that she should know!" Shu Zhaoyi heard this and did not deny it. Shi Shiran put down the tea bowl and said, "After all, although the Queen Mother regards these sisters as a thorn in her flesh, But what about the empress, I really can’t say anything!”
"So what?"
"Although these sisters have caused the Queen Mother to worry a lot in the past, at least they have a clear conscience for their mistakes!"
"On the contrary, the Queen Mother, whom the Queen Mother regards as her beloved Queen, quietly cuckolded Bidong!"
"Princess Princess, please be fair: With the doting on the sisters by Dong Cuo, why don't I know about that kind of thing? Now that I know it, if you don't tell the Queen Mother, ask the Queen to continue to be under the Queen Mother's control The bastard who expects Zhongsheng to have an unknown origin is very contrary to his identity as Bidong's legitimate son... Isn't this palace a human being?"
When Sheng Weiqiao heard this, he sneered and said: "Don't tell me, I am just thinking about the Queen Mother! I dare to say that once the queen's pregnancy is resolved, the one I am pregnant with will be Is this the only bloodline of Bidong? Otherwise, the Queen Mother personally forced the queen to take Dongzhi poison, so how could she let me go?!"
"Weren't the Queen Mother and Queen poisoned to death by palace officials?" Shu Zhaoyi was stunned when she heard this. Because of their favor, the sisters had become deeply rooted in the palace over the years.
However, after the Chang'an Incident, Emperor Xuanjing's status and prestige declined rapidly, and his power was completely dependent on the Shu sisters who were with him. Of course, they were not as good as before.
Especially after the imperial concubine died in Linyuan without any clear explanation until tomorrow, Shu Zhaoyi was helpless. Although she was still favored, she was attracted a lot of attention by Peng Bin and others.
Moreover, the sisters came from poor families and were young and wealthy. Emperor Xuanjing doted on them so much that he did not hesitate to disobey the Queen Mother in public. With such treatment, it would be difficult for the Shu sisters to develop a generous temperament. The people in Didong, except for a few sweet-talking waiters, are almost all harsh.
In the past, they relied on Emperor Xuanjing's favor and ran rampant. Even if they were wrong, they would be arrogant. Who could tolerate it? Not to mention the non-Eastern people
So even though there were a lot of people who took refuge at the peak, there were really only a few who were truly loyal.
In the past few months, Emperor Xuanjing had clearly shown signs of decline, and Shu Zhaoyi's status had rapidly declined. Most of the people in the palace, both inside and outside, had defected to Meng Guiyu.
Although there are many people who hope that Shu Zhaoyi will win over the man and his wife in one fell swoop, with children being the most important thing, they are still very few.
Therefore, Shu Zhaoyi's intelligence was far less than before when he was mistaken about the palace affairs.
"Is it true that the Queen Mother forced the Queen to take poisonous poison with her own legs? That would be great!" Zhaoyi's eyes flashed, with obvious joy in her eyes, "I really want to know how that wretched maid Meng Bijun was forced to swallow poisonous poison. How you feel when you are poisoned!"
"Why do I resent the queen so much?" Sheng Weiqiao couldn't figure it out. "Although the queen is not the successor, she can't actually threaten our sisters' status in the palace at all. As for her favor, does that completely defeat us?" Just staying in Wangchun Palace and being a widow! Doesn't asking for hatred mean that she hates us? Why does it mean that we are trying every possible means to kill her? "
When Shu Zhaoyi heard this, she looked at her in disbelief: "Although the princess came to Chang'an for the first time a few years ago, don't you know? Because of the deposed Wen family, the post was vacant. If it weren't for the Meng family's shamelessness, That bitch Meng Bijun came to occupy Wangchun Palace, where their sisters should not be?!"
Seeing that Sheng Weiqiao still said, "What's so good about Wangchun Palace?" Zhaoyi shook her head with a wry smile and said, "The princess of the county was born in a poor family. She was deeply loved by her parents, and she married the promising Mi Zhen. Wangchun Palace This position is simply not within reach, and of course it is incomprehensible. How many years have they, the sisters, worked hard to get that position?!"
"And what about her, Meng Bijun? The legitimate daughter of Marquis Zheng, she was cruel to the Queen Mother."
"Without any effort at all, under the arrangement of the family, I became Queen Meng justifiably!"
"That's not true, but there are so many people inside and outside who always feel that she has been wronged!"
"Even the princess and I, don't think so, right?"
"Can they be sisters?"
"When they first served your Majesty, how could they not be young and beautiful, like flowers?"
"Who has ever felt sorry for them?! Who has felt sorry for their struggles in the palace all those years?!"
After exhaling, Shu Zhaoyi calmed down Dong's a little excited mood and whispered, "The rear position should have been denied to their sisters!!!"
Sheng Weiqiao twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "Those things have passed, and aside from talking about it, he is curious: How did I convince the Queen Mother to believe my words? He remembers that the Queen Mother has never had a good impression of me. And I am not the same as when I was alive. Concubine Shu has always bullied the Queen before. It can even be said that she racked her brains and hoped to kill the Queen!"
"In that case, if I go to say good things to the Queen Mother and the Queen, the Queen Mother may not be willing to listen!"
"Not to mention saying something about the Queen's honor?"
"Normally, after hearing this, the Queen Mother should immediately suspect that I want to frame the Queen and win the position of crown prince for her unborn heir, right?!"
"Of course the Queen Mother didn't want to believe me at the beginning." Upon hearing this, Shu Zhaoyi narrowed her eyes and said with a faint smile, "Since he dared to reveal the news to her, he naturally has evidence... After all, the palace can't trust him. I have been the master of the house with my sister for decades. At that time, the palace city was in the east, and the Queen Mother’s words were also heard by the sisters!"
"It's fine for Queen Meng to hang out with people in other places!"
"I don't know if she and her adulterer are outside the palace... They sisters don't know anything. Is it true that the concubine who has been a beloved concubine for decades has become a dog?"
Then he said, "Actually, speaking of that incident, his sister saved the brother-in-law whom the princess only recognized once!"
Sheng Weiqiao said unexpectedly: "What did you say?"
Just as Shu Zhaoyi was begging to speak, Jinli coughed outside the door and then reported: "Empress, the female relatives of the Gaomi Palace have come to the palace to express their condolences! The princess is bringing the eldest daughter-in-law to see her!"