"If you hadn't reminded me, the Ai family wouldn't have noticed the fourth brother's thoughts until now!" Empress Dowager Jiang looked pale, shook her head with a sad smile, and whispered, "This shows that the fourth brother's love for the Ai family's brother and sister is nothing more than that. Thing... If the Ai family deceives his legitimate son and grandson into the palace for you, even if you give Yongfu the antidote as promised, how do you think the fourth brother will treat Yongfu in the future! It is painful to die under Wu Lanxiang? Compared to all the humiliations he may suffer in the future, it would be better to be poisoned and be killed, right?"
Seeing the emperor's fierce appearance, the Queen Mother calmed down, thinking about ways to break the situation while perfunctory, and said, "Besides, for no reason, all the male heirs from the fourth room were suddenly called into the palace. Xiaoba can just pay it back. You know that Nineteen has always been shrewd. —Do you think he will doubt it?"
"Then summon Jiang Yashuang, Jiang Jingkun and Jiang Jinglang into the palace!" The emperor thought for a moment and said coldly, "These three have always been loved by the Queen Mother. Now we can find an excuse to let them come. Is it okay? As for Emperor Yongfu Sister, hey, won’t the queen insist that she doesn’t know anything and has been deceived?”
Empress Dowager Jiang said coldly: "If the fourth brother of the Ai family is so easy to deceive, why are you forced to this point now?!"
"Then how is the mother's life?" the emperor asked, "Emperor Yongfu has been married for less than a year, and she has not left any bones and blood. If she died here today, all the mother's bones and blood would be cut off! Has the mother forgotten that back then? The mother longed for a son but could not get one, and it was only thanks to the guidance of Grandma Ye that she gave birth to Princess Yongfu. How happy and grateful she was - no matter how intimate the nephews and grandsons were, how could they have a biological daughter who was born in ten months of pregnancy? !”
"..." Queen Mother Jiang was silent for a brief moment, opening and closing her lips, and was about to speak. Suddenly she saw a burst of thick smoke pouring into the palace, and she couldn't help being shocked: "There's a fire?!"
Immediately I thought of my daughter in the back hall, and in my anxiety I forgot to be poisoned, and stood up suddenly - my head felt dizzy, my legs went weak, and I rolled directly off the Danqi!
The emperor stared at her blankly for a moment, as if he had thought of something. He turned around and ran to the palace door. He removed the latch and pulled the door with all his strength. However, the palace door that had only been closed before seemed to be cast from pig iron. The same thing happened, no matter how hard the emperor tried, he couldn't move at all!
"Ha! Ha! Hahahahaha..." The emperor slapped frantically to no avail. Instead, he was choked by more and more thick smoke pouring in. He covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves and laughed wildly, "What a Jiang Tianchi! What a great Jiang! What a great Cen Wei!”
He slumped behind the door and laughed for a moment, then suddenly rushed to the foot of Danqi, turned over Queen Mother Jiang who was struggling to get up, grabbed her shoulders and arms, and shouted hysterically, "Did you see it?! We I'm still bargaining here, but I don't know that in the eyes of your good brother, we are all part of his plan - the king who kills his mother and his sister - if your mother and daughter are not dead, how can the Jiang family justifiably abolish me, and how can they justifiably do it? Usurping my Chu family’s world
"Hahahahahaha... I have been a lowly person in front of you all my life. There is not a day when I don't think about truly ruling the world and not having to look at your face! But I don't want you to be the same in the end... You are the same... Hahahahahaha!!!"
—The towering flames of Taishi Palace shocked the whole city!
After Xue Chang and other officials found out, they rushed to the palace city immediately - but were rejected in front of the palace gate: "Your Majesty has decreed that there is a flood in Ganquan Palace, and the palace guards and palace people are already fighting to save it. As a precaution, 1. Temporarily close the four doors, please be patient!"
"What?!" Looking at the swords and halberds standing on the palace city, Xue Chang and others turned pale in shock. They looked at Jiang Tianqi and Jiang Tianzhen in unison, only to see that these two people also looked surprised and uncertain!
"Your Majesty has never interfered with court affairs, let alone the power of the imperial army. Why do these soldiers now say they are under your Majesty's orders?!" Even in the situation of government affairs, he dared to face Jiang Tianqi and Jiang Tianzhen directly and sternly questioned them!
"You are asking us who are we asking?!" But they don't know that Jiang Tianqi and Jiang Tianzhen are even more horrified than him at this moment! Hearing this, he couldn't help but glare at him and said in a deep voice, "Ganquan Palace is in trouble - the Queen Mother lives in Ganquan Palace! You are here to guard the palace gate and not allow entry or exit, but you don't know the safety of the Queen Mother?!"
The last sentence was left behind by Xue Chang and asked to the soldiers at the palace gate.
The soldiers in armor were silent. Jiang Tianqi asked three times in a row before someone said stiffly: "We are ordered to guard the gate and don't know anything about the rest! Sir, please wait patiently. Your Majesty has his own arrangements!"
"Could it be that the fourth brother is scheduled to return, and that puppet wants to strike first?!" Jiang Tianqi and Jiang Tianzhen looked at each other and turned pale - Empress Dowager Jiang had no reason to burn down the palace where she lived, nor to seal the four gates, nor to do these things. And there is no communication with the Duke’s government at all!
Now the soldiers at the palace gate keep saying that they are following His Majesty's orders - could it be that the Emperor can't help but launch an attack? !
"How could he suddenly control the entire Imperial City's guards?!" The two cousins couldn't figure it out even after racking their brains. At this moment, even Empress Dowager Jiang, who didn't know whether she was alive or dead, was hated by them. "Tian Luan, these days She has been in the palace for ten years, and this puppet has been in front of her all day long. She doesn’t know anything, and she forces this little thing to make such a big fuss—it’s just a death!”
But now was not the time to complain. Without saying a word, the two of them ran towards the mount they came on - hurry home and report the news!
… The Duke’s Mansion of Qin is not very far from the imperial city.
The fire in Taishi Palace is so huge that even in the daytime, you can see the flames and smoke pillars reaching into the sky without going up to the palace. The faint wails and cries made the Duke's Mansion, which had always been confident, feel better.
"Close the doors and order everyone above and below not to wander around. Anyone who violates the rules will be punished according to family law!" Jiang Yashuang's green shirt was sparse, and his hair was tied up in a bamboo crown. He stood in the courtyard with his hands folded and quietly ordered his servants to spread the word everywhere. , "Let the children go into the house to read, and they are not allowed to come out unless I tell them!"
After all the servants were ordered to leave separately, he looked up at the smoke column, turned to the flowers outside the railing and asked, "Where's Sister Eighteen?"
"The general has only one daughter, how can he not pity her?" A hoarse and cold voice came from the flowers, "Now there is nothing for you to worry about, sir. You just need to stay in this courtyard and spend time with the young lady, Mr. Sun and Miss Sun." We will become... When I need you to do something, the general will give you orders!"
"The fourth aunt always protects the fourth house, and Yongfu is her only daughter..."
"The general has his own sense of proportion." The voice in the flowers interrupted him indifferently.
Jiang Yashuang fell silent.
For a long time, he knelt down towards the smoke column, kowtowed three times seriously, stood up, straightened his robes, turned and walked towards the backyard.
After he disappeared, a sigh came from the flowers, which seemed to be regretful and helpless, but it fell silent again in an instant.
In the inner room of the backyard, Qiu Yilan's complexion was much better than when she woke up. Although she was still a little pale, she also had some blood color. He was leaning on the pocket, talking to Jiang Jingkun and Jiang Jinglang in a gentle voice: "You have to write so much every day? Are you tired? Is it hard?"
"It's not much. Mother didn't see that Senior Brother Lu's homework is much more than what the child and Brother Fourteen have written!" Jiang Jinglang's long eyelashes suddenly flashed, and his big black eyes were as pure and bright as obsidian. He gestured with a smile, "Senior Brother Lu has to do a lot of homework every day. He writes so much... The boy who grinds ink for him rubs his wrists from time to time... Brother Fourteen, right? "
Jiang Jingkun nodded repeatedly: "Brother Seventeen is right! Aunt, you don't know, Senior Brother Lu is the one who works hard when he is tired! But I heard that Uncle Nineteen also came here like this back then... My nephew and Brother Seventeen will also do the same in the future. Do you have to do so much homework?”
Qiu Yilan was about to answer when she suddenly heard someone chuckle outside the window: "This is natural. There is no limit to learning. How can you achieve success without hard work?"
While talking, Jiang Yashuang walked in, and the two children hurriedly ran over to salute.
"Have you finished your homework today?" Jiang Yashuang touched their little heads and asked them to get up with a smile. Children don't know how to read eyes, so after getting up, they asked directly: "Uncle Nineteen, what's wrong with your forehead?" ?”
"I accidentally touched it just now. After you finish your homework, go to Wen Hui Shu Bar and let your senior brother Lu take you." Jiang Yashuang casually said it, called Jiang Shan, and asked him to take the two children to find Lu He, "I'll go to your great-grandmother's place later - your great-grandmother hasn't seen you for several days. You can't just spend time with your aunt and mother, leaving your great-grandmother in the cold!"
After sending the child out with a few words, Qiu Yilan watched him turn back and close the door, and then asked in surprise: "Who did you just give a big gift to?"
The marks on Jiang Yashuang's forehead were clearly from kowtow!
"Fourth Aunt treats me like her own son. When she passes away, I can't go into the palace to rescue her, nor can I see her off in front of the palace gate. I can only kowtow a few times in the front yard towards the Taishi Palace to express my feelings!" There were only two husband and wife left in the house. Jiang Yashuang no longer concealed it, laughed miserably, walked to the couch, and said in a trembling voice, "I knew a long time ago that I couldn't save Fourth Aunt, but I thought Yongfu would always survive... But father... Fourth Aunt I have only one daughter, Yongfu, who has grown up with me like a biological sister... You know I have been a young grandson for the past ten years and have no younger siblings. Although Sister Shiba is my twin sister, she has a gentle nature. Shen Jing always feels like she is several years older than me... But Yong Fu, she is naughty and playful, and has been tired of me since she was three or five years old... It was because of her that we met in the first place... "
"She is a girl, even if she is the direct princess of the Chu family, how can she still hinder her father while she is alive?! The crime of killing her aunt is enough to make your majesty irrecoverable...Father, he..."
Jiang Yashuang was talking incoherently, clenching his fist tightly, and a series of blood drops dripped from his palm, rolling down on his green shirt, but he didn't notice it at all. The despair and pain in his expression were as heavy as a mountain, full of difficulty. The pathos and powerlessness described - the unprepared Qiu Yilan raised her sleeves to cover her lips, horrified: "You... what are you talking about?!"