The Empress Dowager shook her sleeves lightly, and with a twitch of her lips, she gave a cold and sarcastic smile, "It's not hard for him. Will you learn from this? You are wrong. It's not just because you didn't come back by water. You have done too many wrong things in recent days. I want you to remember that if you make a mistake, it will implicate the people around you. In this way, you will think twice before doing anything in the future, and you will be cautious and leave no room for error."
Zi'an felt a little better, wiped the corner of his mouth, and said weakly: "Seventh Brother, I'm fine."
Murong Jie saw that her face had turned pale, and he felt distressed. "Hurry up and drink some water. Don't talk. Take a rest."
Zi'an leaned back in the chair, and Aunt Ah She brought a cushion for her. "Compared to your earlier days, these crimes are nothing. You almost lost your life. If you want to blame someone, blame Old Seven. He is the one who hurt you."
Zi'an raised his eyelids and said, "No, it has nothing to do with him."
Aunt Ah She looked at Murong Jie. She didn't dare to help him in front of the old ancestor, and she even scolded him, "What do you think? Is it related to you? This time, if it weren't for your Regent King Qingtian coming out to help you, you would have died long ago. If you died, how could your wife live? What a shame!"
Murong Jie asked in surprise: "The Regent King Qingtian, is he still here?"
The Empress Dowager waved her hand and said, "Why are you talking to him about this? Ask him if he knows where he went wrong?"
Aunt Ah She looked at him, "What did you do wrong?"
She usually talked back, but this time she could see that the Empress Dowager was really angry, so she didn't dare to act recklessly and just walked away obediently.
Murong Jie thought for a moment and said, "Please let me know, old ancestor."
The Empress Dowager said sternly, "Explicitly? You still don't know where you are wrong, which is hopeless. You knew that you were poisoned by the same fate, why didn't you ask me to remove it earlier? You knew that Lao Ba's wolfish ambitions, and you knew that he would attack your wife, but you pretended to be kind and righteous and talked about brotherhood? Are you a gangster? Even if you are a gangster, you know that anyone who hurts your wife and son must be killed with three knives and six holes. In addition, you are still the regent. Although the emperor is in power, you have the ability to compete with him, but you let him toss. You are great, aren't you? Where do you put your wife and the people of the country? Don't tell me what kind of minister you are. Don't say that I taught you to be friendly and respectful to your brothers. I also taught you that nothing is more important than the country and the people. At the critical moment, you have to risk your life. You still have to fight for what you should fight for and take what you should take. The emperor is already so paranoid. If you let him rule, what will become of my Great Zhou?"
The Empress Dowager's words were full of sarcasm and did not give him any chance to breathe. She scolded him all over and made him dazed.
She cursed for a while, took a breath, and continued to curse: "You don't want to remove the same fate Gu because you still want to let Lao Ba go. If you remove it, you will have to kill him. I am happy that you care about the brotherhood, but when your brother's actions have endangered the country, you still show mercy? Foolish, extremely foolish! With great power, you should kill decisively. Where is your former courage and wisdom? Could it be that you have married a wife and have concerns in your heart, so you are afraid to act? If so, I might as well give her a cup of poisoned wine right away, so that you don't do stupid things and harm yourself and the people."
"Grandfather!" Murong Jie knelt straight down, "I know I was wrong, please calm down."
"I haven't finished yet. The emperor named an empress dowager. He also called Sun Fang'er into the palace and named her a concubine. He used evil methods to prolong her life. He is close to villains and far away from loyal people. Look at who he has promoted recently and what they have done. Go to the imperial study and take a look at the memorials submitted by the censors. Are you deaf or blind? You can't see anything, right?"
Seeing that Old Seven was being scolded so badly, Zi An couldn't help but defend Murong Jie, "Grandfather, when the emperor did these things, Old Seven was still in Beimo. He couldn't intervene even if he wanted to."
"Now that he's back, he should be in charge, right? But what did he do when he came back? Did he really just sit there and do nothing when the emperor didn't let him? Why? Wasn't it because you were afraid of being criticized for disobeying the emperor and having evil intentions? Just for the sake of reputation, you just ignored it?"
The Empress Dowager was so angry that she cursed and pressed her heart with her hand, and the veins on her forehead were bulging.
Aunt Ah She comforted him, "Okay, okay, if you keep scolding me, I'll have a heart attack. Old bone should also pay attention, right? And you only found out about those things after you read the memorial and asked people to investigate. Old Seven had no choice. If you say he showed mercy to Old Eight, I won't help him. But he really didn't know about the things the emperor did, and there was no way to investigate. Besides, there was a war at the time, so don't push all the responsibility onto him. He is not a big man, and he can't bear so many charges."
After the Empress Dowager scolded him for a while, her anger had mostly subsided. After listening to Aunt Ah She's words, she said unhappily, "It was you who spoiled him. Look how you spoiled him."
Zi'an felt like she had just been to the battlefield and experienced a bombardment of artillery fire. She glanced at Lao Qi, who had a complicated expression on his face. It was obvious that the old ancestor had hit the nail on the head.
The Empress Dowager said to Aunt Ah She, "Take Zi'an with you and I will have a few words with him."
"Take it easy, take a mouthful of shit and a mouthful of candy. After you eat shit, at least give me a candy." Aunt Ashe said.
"Go ahead, are you annoying?" said the Empress Dowager, frowning.
Aunt Ashe turned around and called Zi'an to go to the side hall with her.
Aunt Ah She was a sensible person. When she saw Zi An enter the side hall, she looked uneasy and said, "The old ancestor was angry and said something nonsense. Don't take it to heart. This is her temper. It's good to scold her."
Zi'an forced a smile and said, "Just now she said that Old Seven was timid because he married me. What do you think, Auntie?"
Aunt Ah She thought for a moment, "You must have been responsible for this. He cares too much about you. The Empress Dowager saw how much he cares about you before, so she talked to you about it and gave you Scarlace so that you can protect yourself and not let him worry about you. But, no matter how capable you are, if he has you in his heart, he will be cautious about you. She is over 300 years old... and she also experienced a relationship herself when she was in her thirties. How could she not understand? It's just a casual curse, and Bufan seems to have too little content in her curse."
After hearing what Aunt Ashe said, Zi'an couldn't help but sigh. The old ancestor was indeed foresighted. She told her not to rely on the seventh brother for everything, but also to help him a little.
Alas, she remembered that when she was in the prime minister's mansion, she still had a ruthless heart, but later she became more and more timid. In this love affair, she and Lao Qi were actually dragging each other down
(End of this chapter)