The next morning, Zi'an took Lingli and Ni Rong to Lady Chen's mansion.
It just so happened that Liu Liu also returned to her parents' home. In fact, she often went back to her parents' home for a short stay recently.
This made her twelve sisters-in-law very dissatisfied, because they had been looking forward to marrying her off, but she ran back to her parents' home in the first two days. Because she was married, the old lady and General Chen paid more attention to her than before, and her treatment was also upgraded.
When Zi'an returned to Beijing, Liu Liu was going to visit her, but Liu Liu was really useless. Before she got pregnant, she was in good health, able to eat, drink, and kill mice. But when she was about two months pregnant, she started to have all kinds of pregnancy reactions, and she was sick every day like a Xi Shi.
Even when Xiao Tuo saw her, he cried out that he had misjudged her, thinking she was a tigress, but instead she was a little mouse.
After Liu Liu became pregnant, she began to feel uncomfortable with the living and eating conditions in the Marquis' Mansion. Xiao Tuo had no choice but to send her back to her parents' home. After all, her parents were very experienced in giving birth to children.
After being bored at her parents' house for a few days, Zi'an came and rescued her. When she saw Zi'an, she pulled Zi'an to complain about her grievances, saying how hard it was to be pregnant. After complaining, she started to vomit up the breakfast she had eaten early in the morning.
When Zi'an saw her vomiting, he couldn't help but vomit too. Lady Chen felt a headache and stood aside directing the well-trained maids to clean up the place. The maids had been preparing to clean since the moment Liu Liu had breakfast, and they had finally waited for her to vomit. In fact, there was no need for the old lady to give any orders, as everyone had already come up wielding weapons... brooms and mops and the like.
Seeing this, Zi'an quickly said to Liu Liu, "You should go back and rest. I'll talk to your grandmother and then I'll go to your room to find you."
Liu Liu vomited and felt exhausted. She just wanted to go back and lie down, so she asked someone to help her go back, and then she repeatedly told Zi'an to come back and see her.
The old lady glanced at Zi'an and knew that she was not here just to sit and chat, so she dismissed the servants and said, "What do you want to say, Princess?"
Zi'an smiled and said, "You are still the old lady with a keen eye. You know what's on my mind."
"It's hard to say whether the capital is in chaos recently, but it's also hard to say whether it's peaceful. Princess, are you here for government affairs?" The old lady asked tentatively.
Zi'an waved his hands, "No, no, we women don't interfere in government affairs."
The old lady was a little disappointed, "Oh, then why did the princess come here?"
Zi'an was not in a hurry to speak, but was a little curious about why the old lady was disappointed, "Old lady, have you ever thought about asking about the government affairs?"
The old lady smiled and said, "I don't think I'll ask about government affairs. I'm old and useless, and I can't help much."
Zi'an looked at her and began to understand a little. Before the seventh brother came back, the Empress Dowager supported everything on her own but did not ask her for help. She felt a little disappointed.
Zi'an said: "The old lady is a famous general of the Great Zhou. If you are used, it will be a disaster for the country."
The old lady smiled bitterly: "I know myself, even if the country is in great trouble, with my broken body, I can't do anything. Forget it, let's not talk about this. What does the princess want to say to me?"
Zi'an first told the old lady what she and Lao Qi had experienced in front of the Dragon King Temple, and then asked, "Lao Qi said that if you want to know about the relationship between the Grand Empress Dowager and the Regent King Qingtian, it's best to ask you. That's why I came here."
"Are you curious about the Regent King Qingtian or the Empress Dowager?"
Zi'an smiled and said, "Aren't they all the same?"
The old lady also smiled and said, "It's the same."
She took a sip of tea, and the mist of the tea rose, making her face hidden behind the mist seem a little distant. "Let's talk about the Grand Empress Dowager first. Back then, when the Emperor was seriously ill, the Empress Dowager Zhongxian and the Empress were both from the Tong family. In order to curb the growth of foreign relatives, the Emperor issued an imperial decree when he was seriously ill, requiring the Empress to be buried alive with him in order to weaken the power of the Tong family. In order to save Empress Tong, the Empress Dowager Zhongxian deposed the Empress Tong and made a private deal with the then Prime Minister Long to bring the Prime Minister's daughter into the palace as the Empress. The Prime Minister's daughter was the Grand Empress Dowager Long Zhanyan. The Prime Minister Long was a member of the Tong family. Why not sacrifice an unpopular daughter to please the Tong family? Therefore, the Empress Dowager Zhongxian issued an order to enthrone Long Zhanyan as the Empress."
"At that time, everyone thought that after the Dragon Queen entered the palace, the Holy Ancestor would not survive. After all, he had been in a coma since he issued the decree that the Queen be buried alive with him. Unexpectedly, after the Dragon Queen entered the palace, the Holy Ancestor woke up and learned about the Queen Mother Zhongxian's scheme and the Dragon Queen's true identity. He then made a deal with the Dragon Queen, letting her continue to be the fake Queen and protect the country of Great Zhou. At that time, the country of Great Zhou was still called Liang. It was the descendants of Huizu that had a stronger national power than the then Daliang State. To distinguish it, the country was changed to Zhou and called Great Zhou."
Zi'an interrupted her, "You said that the Holy Ancestor learned the true identity of the Grand Empress Dowager. Isn't the real identity of the Grand Empress Dowager the daughter of the Dragon Prime Minister?"
Zi'an couldn't help but sigh deeply. Most of the prime ministers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were people who sold their daughters for fame and fortune.
The old lady Jun Man glanced at Zi An and said, "Until now, do you still think that the Empress Dowager is just an ordinary person?"
Zi'an smiled awkwardly, "Of course I don't think so, but it's too weird and hard to imagine." We have to hold on to the last line of scientific defense.
The old lady took the cup in her hand and gently stroked the gold edge of the cup. "I won't mention the real identity of the Grand Empress Dowager here. She is definitely not an ordinary person. I just said that after the Holy Ancestor knew her identity, he made an agreement with her to abolish the decree that the empress must be buried alive with the emperor, but asked her to help the new emperor. The Dragon Queen agreed. Therefore, the Dragon Queen and the Holy Ancestor were just fake husband and wife. Everything was just a deal. This is how the later story of the Regent King Qingtian and the Grand Empress Dowager came about."
"After the death of the Holy Ancestor, the Dragon Queen was named the Queen Mother, the former Child Queen was named the Holy Mother, and Prince Murong Qingtian was named the Regent to assist the new emperor. The two of them worked very well together..."
The old lady spoke for more than an hour, and Zi'an listened with great interest. He almost jumped up when she was excited, cursed when she was angry, clapped his hands in amazement when he was happy, and sighed over the twists and turns in the love between Regent Prince Qingtian and the Empress Dowager.
After hearing this, she couldn't calm down for a long time, "What a wonderful woman, what a wonderful woman!"
The old lady smiled and said, "You are not the first to say this, and you won't be the last."
Zi'an was lost in thought for a while, then asked, "How much does the old lady know about Doctor Wen Yi?"
"Doctor Wen Yi?" Lady Chen was startled. "Why are you talking about Doctor Wen Yi for no reason?"
"She will be coming to the capital soon. Old Seven said that Doctor Wen Yi had been to the Great Zhou Dynasty. The Empress Dowager, you, and Doctor Wen Yi talked together for a long time, so I thought you should know something about Doctor Wen Yi."
Zi'an was amazed. The old lady was really good at hiding things. She had never revealed before that she knew Doctor Wen Yi. Even when she talked about Doctor Wen Yi, she acted as if she didn't know him.
(End of this chapter)