What happened outside the bedroom was soon reported back to the bedroom by the young eunuch. After hearing it, Murong Zheng looked puzzled.
He never imagined that in an emergency, the person who could reassure his sons was the Empress Dowager, whom he had always rejected and guarded against.
If there was no Ruyi Bottle, only the Empress Dowager could save the country that he tried so hard to protect.
He hadn't seen the Empress Dowager for a long time, but the disappointment in the Empress Dowager's loving eyes when she left all these years was like a needle piercing his heart.
He still clearly remembered his father's last words, which told him to listen to the Empress Dowager, but he always felt that his father had to say that because he was intimidated by the Empress Dowager's authority.
Now think about it, the Empress Dowager had retired to Feifeng Palace and had never used her power to suppress my father.
He still remembered that when he was a child, every time he went into Feifeng Palace with his father, the Empress Dowager would give his father medicine. He also remembered that the Empress Dowager taught him to write when he was a child. He also remembered that the Empress Dowager quarreled with his father because his father gave him too much homework.
Even this time when he was poisoned, the ones who were most aware of it were the younger generations that the Grand Empress Dowager paid the most attention to, the eldest prince and Murong Kai, while Murong Jie, who was taught carefully by her, was probably kept in the dark.
Before, he deliberately tried not to think about these things, but now, those memories were no longer under his control and came flooding back.
After a long, long time, Murong Zheng's hoarse voice was heard in the silent hall, and three words were uttered with regret and apology: "Ancestor."
"Go check on the situation at Qingliang Palace. If Dong is causing a big fuss, bring her here."
Murong Zheng gave the order softly, but the confusion in his eyes had disappeared. This was also the first time that he addressed Concubine Dong as Mrs. Dong.
At that time, the Queen Mother hated Concubine Dong, but he deliberately went against the Grand Queen Mother, pampered her, and indulged her. In the end, the Grand Queen Mother was really hurt by him and found an excuse to go to Hanshan and stay away from the palace. He liked this result, so he pampered Concubine Dong even more, but he didn't expect that he pampered her so much that she became lawless, committed regicide, and usurped the throne easily.
Back then, the Empress Dowager said that she was a wolf from Zhongshan, who became arrogant when she succeeded.
He thought that the Empress Dowager disliked Dong, but he didn't expect that to be the case.
The young eunuch took the order and left, but he had already prepared in his heart to bring Concubine Dong here. Everyone in the palace knew Concubine Dong's temper. Now that the imperial edict had given the throne to her son, she was probably going to hold a grand banquet in the Qingliang Palace.
However, the young eunuch did not expect that Concubine Dong was still staying in Qingliang Palace. Eunuch Wan, who had previously announced the decree to the princes, was now looking at the two people at the door of Qingliang Palace with a cold face.
The three of them seemed to be in a standoff.
The young eunuch didn't understand the situation and didn't dare to step forward, so he could only watch from a distance.
"The person inside is not the Dong you mentioned. She is the Crown Prince's mother and the future Empress Dowager."
"You are wrong, eunuch. No matter who inherits the throne in the future, the current queen is the empress dowager who deserves to be called the queen mother."
"The Holy Mother Empress Dowager is also in there." Eunuch Wan felt that he was going to go crazy because of the two people in front of him who were so stubborn. The imperial edict of succession had been brought out, but they didn't care at all and still didn't allow him to enter the Qingliang Palace, let alone let Concubine Dong come out.
"Do you really have to let me bring the prince here and order you to open the door?" Eunuch Wan really had no other choice. He gritted his teeth and threatened these two ignorant people that he would take their lives when His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came.
"According to the decree of the late emperor, not only the crown prince, but even the emperor cannot enter Qingliang Palace. Any concubine who enters Qingliang Palace cannot leave and can only stay there for the rest of their lives."
The young eunuch's words were so powerful that Eunuch Wan's face became even gloomier. Concubine Dong, who was putting on airs in the Qingliang Palace and waiting for someone to pick her up, seemed to be going crazy.
She didn't take the young eunuch's words seriously before, but now, she felt as if she was falling into an icy cave. Now that her son's identity was there, they didn't seem to have the courage to deceive her.
(End of this chapter)