Empress Dowager Zhou interrupted him and said sternly: "Are all the ministers in the court dead? Is there anything you must leave to your empress? And after becoming a country, she left the palace without permission. She also disappeared without a trace like the Yellow Crane, which made you abandon the affairs of the country to look for her. Now that you have found her, why don't you bring her back? Even if she returns to the palace, the Ai family is not going to want her as the queen anymore! "
Her tone was extremely stern, which shocked Mo Chuan's heart.
"Queen mother..."
Empress Dowager Zhou waved her hand and said with a serious expression: "After a country, only a virtuous and virtuous woman can be elected. Shen Ning has violated the palace rules by leaving the post without authorization. According to the ancestral system, she has long been excluded. We are behind the Western Chu Kingdom.”
Mo Chuan gritted his teeth and said: "Queen Mother, it's not that Ning'er doesn't want to return to the palace, it's because she has no choice but to go back to the palace. She... she..."
"Shut up!"
Queen Mother Zhou felt a headache when she heard Shen Ning's name. She stroked her forehead and said, "The Ai family doesn't want to hear her name from your mouth again, and you don't have to defend her. She is unethical and derelict in her duties. She is not worthy of being your queen. Did you know that you and she left the palace one after another, and the news spread all over the court, and the words coming out of the mouths of the ministers were not as pleasant as what the Ai family said. "
Mo Chuan said in a deep voice: "Why should the queen care about other people's rumors?"
"Humph, is it just gossip?"
Empress Dowager Zhou sneered: "Defending the people is better than Du Chuan. You won't be so fascinated by that girl that you even forget all the lessons of your ancestors."
"Of course I remember."
"As long as you remember, Chuan'er, it was not easy for the Queen Mother to raise you to adulthood after being pregnant for ten months. The Queen Mother only hopes that you can be a man of perfect virtue and uprightness. The Queen Mother does not want you to be recorded as a human being in the records of later generations of historians. A monarch with bad moral character, I don’t want you to be humiliated because of that girl, so that even if the Ai family is dead, they will not be able to see their ancestors underground." Empress Dowager Zhou said in a sad tone, with tears in her eyes.
Mo Chuan couldn't help but straighten his back and said loudly: "Queen mother, don't worry, what I did is worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth. I did not live up to the teachings of my mother, nor did I disgrace my ancestors."
Empress Dowager Zhou pointed at him, her fingers trembling slightly because of her anger: "You have not lost the face of your ancestors. You can walk and sit upright, but you stole your nephew's princess! You have the nerve to say that you are worthy of the conscience of heaven and earth!"
"Mother, have you forgotten? She is no longer Chu Shaoyang's princess. When she divorced Chu Shaoyang, not only her children, but also her mother, and all the civil and military ministers of the dynasty saw with their own eyes that her son I am marrying a good queen with dignified character and impeccable conduct!”
Mo Chuan's every word is striking and resounding.
Empress Dowager Zhou was so angry that she was trembling all over and said angrily: "Okay, my mother just said a word, and you have so many words to defend her, okay, okay, okay!"
She said three good words in a row before saying: "Even if you can explain that she has bad moral character, as a queen of a country, can she fulfill her obligations as a queen? She is not in the palace as the queen of the world. You set an example and live happily outside the palace, do you think you can seal the mouths of everyone in the world just by opening your mouth?"
"Queen mother..."
Mo Chuan's expression changed and he gritted his teeth.
The words of Empress Dowager Zhou were so powerful that he was speechless for a moment.