The queen mother lowered her eyes and fiddled with the melon seeds scattered on the table.
It would not be so easy to find another woman as beautiful as Concubine Yun who was so easy to play with to come to the palace.
Li Helan has already sneered: "The emperor's sister-in-law is really interesting. The incident happened in your Kunning Palace, and there are all your people around. Sister Yun is weak and weak, and it's not just how you say it with a dozen mouths. Now? Concubine Yun is not stupid, how could she be detrimental to the eldest prince in front of so many people? Even if you make up a lie, make up a decent one to convince the queen mother. It’s really slandering people who don’t care.”
After taunting, Li Helan grabbed the melon seeds to eat them again. The crisp sound of the melon seeds clacked, and the Queen Mother laughed when she heard it.
"That's the truth. It's a serious crime to be unfavorable to the emperor. Even if someone is daring, they have to secretly carry it behind their back. Where is the reason for doing this in person? Empress, Aijia knows that you never liked Concubine Yun, but you shouldn't either. Fooling everyone as idiots."
The empress blushed in a hurry, "Empress Dowager, if the concubine has a half-truth, let the concubine die! Concubine Yun is indeed trying to use the sharp armor to scratch Brother Hao's face when the concubine is not guarded!
"How old is Brother Hao? What should I do if my face is injured and I get a fever? Even if it can't hurt Brother Hao's life, if the wound leaves a scar, it will cut off Brother Hao's future. It's because everyone thinks the same way as you and the eldest princess, so they will start unscrupulously!
"It's not just the concubines who saw this. Princess Zhongshun was also present, as well as Madam Gong. They and the palace servants at the time can all testify!"
The Empress Dowager frowned and looked at Qin Yining, "Zhixi's daughter-in-law can be trusted to speak, can you tell me?"
Qin Yining listened to it for a long time, but in fact, she realized that the queen mother was just deliberately playing tricks on the queen.
The queen mother is now the person in power in the harem. The queen does not have as deep scheming and ambition as she does. She is lazy to take care of things. She has no enough contacts. In order to consolidate her power, the queen mother naturally has to fully support herself. Concubine Yun who supported her.
Because of today's events, no matter whether Concubine Yun is really innocent or not, Concubine Yun will only be innocent in the Empress Dowager's place.
Qin Yining knew this result before he came. It's just that she is just a wife, not a talker, and it's not good to mention the queen too much to avoid adverse effects. So she could only watch the queen eagerly do such things that would definitely slap her face.
That's right, Qin Yining had actually foreseen that the Queen's affairs today would definitely end up slapped in the face. Because the eldest prince was not really injured, even if so many people saw it at that time, the other party had reason to quibble.
The only benefit this incident brought to the queen is to make her understand how unwise it is to rush to attack an opponent without conclusive evidence and no one can refute it.
When Qin Yining's thoughts turned around, he had already saluted: "There is only one position in the heart of the minister's wife, that is to be loyal to the sage, loyal to the Zhou, so the minister's wife's words do not contain any bias. What Empress Fang Cai said is indeed true."
The queen mother choked on what she said. Just now, I wanted to rebuke Qin Yining for deliberately slandering Concubine Yun in order to please the queen, but she was blocked by her words like an "unpredictable prophet".
Li Helan ignored this, she laughed mockingly: "Stop putting money on your face, even if you want to be loyal, you still haven't used your land, women and children in a mere district, still want to learn to be loyal to a man's family? You? What is it!"
Qin Yining smiled and said to Li Helan, "Your Highness, the eldest princess, is afraid that she is saving others by herself. The officials and wives are not talented, and they did their best when the palace changed."
The eldest princess glared at Qin Yining and stopped talking.
At the beginning, Li Qitian was able to return to the palace to master the overall situation, and the Qingtian Alliance had a great contribution. She had forgotten what kind of bullshit Qin Yining was...
Qin Yining turned to the Empress Dowager and said: "The Empress Dowager should understand that the ministers have no position to favor anyone. The ministers caught the hand of Concubine Yun who was preparing to commit the murder, but it was only out of love and pity for the child, and could not bear it. Watching little babies suffer, that's all."
The Queen Mother actually believed it in her heart.
As Qin Yining said, the sage had a heart to target Pang Xiao. Outsiders didn't know about it, but everyone present knew the inside story. Qin Yining, as a foreigner, doesn't have much communication with the palace on weekdays. There is really no need for her to lie to please the queen. Even if she pleases the queen again, if the saint has a move in the future, the queen will not be able to help her.
What's more, the Empress Dowager knew Concubine Yun's temperament and knew that the Empress was an upright person.
But what if you believe it
The old goddess of the queen mother said: "That's it. What a big thing, the prince's face will be fine, and Concubine Yun may not really make a move, and even if he does, it may be framed by others.
"As the Empress Dowager, Aijia must deal with the affairs of the palace fairly. You can't make a conclusion based on the one-sided words of the Queen. Besides, you had a lot of people at that time. How can you tell Concubine Yun when you say one sentence? Otherwise, it would be fine if Aijia asked Concubine Yun to accompany you."
Speaking of this, the Queen Mother immediately ordered someone to go to the prison of the Zongren Mansion: "Let Concubine Yun release. If you ask, say it is the meaning of the Aijia, and the Aijia has something to ask."
"Yes." Immediately outside the door, there was a palace servant, who quickly walked to the ancestral mansion to pick him up.
At this time, the queen looked at the proud faces of the queen mother and the eldest princess, and her heart was already cold.
This is her mother-in-law.
For your own selfish interests, you can ignore your own grandchildren. In order to raise her cousin and niece to say goodbye to her daughter-in-law, she could care nothing about her face, let alone her own face.
I used to live in the countryside, and I didn't see that the Queen Mother was such a person!
Who knows, some people can share weal and woe, but cannot share wealth.
The queen's nose was sore for a while, and tears rolled around her eyes, almost falling on the spot. If she hadn't clenched her fist tightly, pinched the flesh of her palm with her fingernails, and reminded herself not to lose face in front of others, she would really be unable to bear it.
Not long after, the palace servants in Ci'an Palace brought Concubine Yun back.
In fact, when Concubine Yun arrived at the Zongren Mansion, she was quickly brought back before she was imprisoned. She was still full of fear in her heart, and she did such an impulsive thing unintentionally. If the queen mother knew about it, I am afraid she would not forgive her lightly.
Who would have thought that she was picked up by the queen mother before she could endure hardship.
In the end is their own relatives. Even if she stabs a hole in the sky, the queen mother can support her.
With this thought in mind, Concubine Yun's expression when she stepped into Ci'an Palace was quite smug.
Seeing the Empress standing on the spot with a pale face, Concubine Yun twisted her waist and swayed her stride, and stepped forward: "My concubine, please be safe to the Empress Dowager, and please be safe to the Empress."
"Forget it." The Queen Mother waved her hand, seeing that Concubine Yun had done something stupid, and she was not ashamed but proud, she didn't need to guess what she was thinking, she suppressed her anger and said, "Concubine Yun, you Let’s talk about what happened at that time. Do you really dare to be detrimental to the emperor?”
"Empress Dowager, please don't listen to the slander, how can the concubine be detrimental to the emperor's heir? The eldest prince is the grandson of the empress dowager and the direct son of the sage. Even if the concubine has a hundred courage, she would not dare to do such a thing. What's more, the concubine is not stupid, so many people are present, the concubine dares to do it? If the concubine wants to do it, you have to choose a time when no one is present, right?"
Concubine Yun glared at the empress, and said pitifully: "The empress has never been interested in seeing ministers and concubines. These days school rules have made it difficult for ministers and concubines. The ministers and concubines have been patient, who knows that in the end, they will be bitten. The concubine is really wronged."
Concubine Yun sat on the ground and cried, as if she was really wronged.
The Queen was trembling with anger at Concubine Yun's shameless behavior, and stared at Concubine Yun with red eyes: "Concubine Yun, people are doing it, the sky is watching, did you intentionally want to scratch Brother Hao's face? I know it in my heart, and the people present see it, and God knows it too! You are so unreasonable, but you say that this palace has falsely accused you, won't you feel guilty in your conscience!"
Concubine Yun fearlessly twisted her waist and shook her head: "The Queen Mother, look at the Queen, this is how the Queen threatened the concubines, if the concubines hadn't had each other with the Queen Mother, they would have been skinned and cramped long ago, and there would be no bones left. "
Concubine Yun turned around and kowtowed to the empress: "The empress, please forgive the concubine, the concubine is just a little concubine, although the emperor favors the concubine a little, but you are the empress, the only concubine. Concubine, you are lucky to have a prince, the concubine has nothing, what is there to be jealous of the empress, if you have to frame the concubine like this, the concubine will die!"
Concubine Yun said at the end, her forehead pressed against the ground, and she burst into tears.
The queen was trembling with anger, and turned to look at the queen mother: "The queen mother Mingjian, there is really no need for the concubine to tell this lie, if Concubine Yun didn't do such a stupid thing, how could the concubine use such a thing to speak to Concubine Yun? Everyone is proof, please check carefully!"
The Empress Dowager shook her head: "As Concubine Yun said, all the people in Kunning Palace are yours, but they all speak to you? Queen, Aijia sees you as an honest person on weekdays, but I never thought you would do such a thing. Jealousy."
The queen bit her lower lip tightly, her grievance could no longer be added. Tears finally fell silently down his face.
Qin Yining watched from behind and couldn't help shaking his head.
The queen is too emotional and still has hope for the queen mother and others. That's why I put myself in such an unbearable situation. She was just too unacceptable to find out, so from the beginning of the conversation, she failed to grasp the point and fell behind.
Seeing that the Empress was speechless, the Queen Mother raised her eyebrows proudly, and said with a smile: "Forget it, Ai Jia also knows that you are just a ghost for a while, so I won't punish you this time, just go back to your Kunning Palace to think about it. As for Brother Hao, Ai's family should take him to the Ci'an Palace and raise him personally."