Mrs. Liu had not yet returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, because the Emperor had urgent matters to deal with and did not have time to see her, so he asked her to wait in the side hall. At this moment, she was sitting here, completely in a trance.
She saw the emperor's affectionate attitude towards Ye Zhen. When she heard that Ye Zhen had an affair with a certain man before marrying Qin Zheng, she did not get angry. Instead, she was extremely happy, saying that he admired a true-hearted woman like Ye Zhen.
Mrs. Liu clenched her fists. The new emperor was really hard to figure out. She waited for a long time and finally waited until Wei Ziyu announced that she had entered the palace. The tall man was sitting in front of the dragon case. His expression was cold and his face looked very bad. , Mrs. Liu knelt in front of him. She knelt for a long time, and Wei Ziyu, who was immersed in reading the memorial, finally looked up at her.
He didn't say anything, he just asked her, could she still find the maid and midwife who gave birth to Mrs. Li more than ten years ago
Mrs. Liu was startled and quickly said that she might not be able to do it anymore. After all, in the past sixteen years, people had to leave and disperse, and they died. In troubled times, it was not easy to find someone. She asked cautiously: "Your Majesty, why do you ask? What happened sixteen years ago?”
Wei Ziyu said: "Ye Zhen said that she suspected that there was something fishy about her mother Li's death, and begged me to give her the truth. I thought of the loyal family in the Champion House and General Qin's only heir who died early, so I couldn't bear to reject her."
Mrs. Liu couldn't think of anything else at this time. She was only worried that Wei Ziyu wanted to investigate the old things from sixteen years ago. At that time, the things were done secretly and not many people knew about them. The old housekeeper was dead, and the old nanny beside her was also long gone. Just leave. The midwife left the capital after that incident... Thinking about this, Mrs. Liu calmed down and said: "Zhen'er may have thought this way because she has been away for too long. In fact, the prime minister loves my sister very much. If my sister's death There is something really strange, and the Prime Minister will not ignore it. It was Zhen'er who misunderstood, and my sister really had a difficult delivery, and we are very sad for this... "
Wei Ziyu glanced at her: "I hope so. I don't want too many people to know what happened today. Please step back."
Mrs. Liu was thinking a lot in her heart, but she didn't reveal anything in front of her. She just hurriedly found Ye Zhongyue after returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and took him to the study. After seeing no one around, she said: "Master Prime Minister, I I met Zhen'er! I think the relationship between Zhen'er and the emperor is extraordinary. What's more important is that Zhen'er actually tempted the emperor to help her investigate her sister's difficult childbirth sixteen years ago. Although I said that what happened that day was not man-made but an accident. But the emperor doesn't seem to believe it. Prime Minister, what do you think we should do? If the emperor really finds out that there is something fishy about Li's death sixteen years ago, will he punish him? What should we do?"
Ye Zhongyue was just afraid that Ye Zhen was secretly doing something to stumble them, but he didn't expect that Ye Zhen wanted to find out the cause of Li's death! "Did she hear something somewhere?"
Mrs. Liu said: "How is it possible? All the old people at that time were sold out by me, and the old housekeeper is dead. Now the only people in this house who know about this matter are you and me. I usually keep silent about it. How could Ye Zhen have heard of these things?"
Ye Zhongyue said: "Then how could she suspect that there was something fishy about Li's death?"
How did Mrs. Liu know? In short, Ye Zhen was a bit evil after Qin Zheng's death. A widow did not stay in the house honestly, but actually entered the palace to accompany the Queen Mother. Now she even used charming tricks to get the Emperor to listen to her!
Ye Zhongyue thought for a while and asked: "Did Ye Zhen say anything when you saw her?"
Ms. Liu: "Ye Zhen suspects that you and I killed her mother. I see that she hates us very much. Mr. Xiang..."
Ye Zhongyue frowned, and Mrs. Liu worriedly asked him what to do.
Ye Zhongyue said: "It's okay. You go and rest first. I'll think about what to do."
Mrs. Liu could only go back to her room first. Ye Zhongyue thought for a long time and called the housekeeper to tell him to look for the person and kill him if he found him.
The butler's pupils shrank and he responded.
Soon Wei Ziyu received the news, and he sneered, the old fox could no longer hide his tail.
During this period, Wei Ziyu received news again that King Chu Xiang had rebelled and he proclaimed himself emperor in Jinzhou! After King Xiang of Chu came King Gongjing.
The whole court was in an uproar.
What the late emperor left behind was a mess. The people were complaining, the treasury was empty, officials were colluding in political darkness, the landlords were rising, the princes were in constant disputes, and the imperial power was weak...
Wei Ziyu was so busy that Ye Zhen had not seen him for several days. Even when she went to greet the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother was worried and worried every day.
Xiao Xi was afraid of Wei Ziyu before, but now she is worried that Wei Ziyu will forget Ye Zhen. Without the emperor's favor, every step of the harem women's life in the palace will be extremely difficult, not to mention that Ye Zhen has no backer, and the Hou Mansion will not be successful. He only used a false name, and even the false name disappeared after Qin Zheng died.
Ye Zhen smiled and shook her head and said: "The Emperor cares about the world. If under such circumstances he still only cares about the personal relationship between his children, then I will get to know him again."
"Miss, aren't you worried?"
"What's there to worry about?"
Judging from the current situation, Wei Ziyu will become the overlord after overcoming the current difficulties. Zheng Pei will lead the peasant uprising to occupy the land of Shu and proclaim himself emperor, granting the title of Han. King Chu Xiang will occupy Jinzhou, Jiaozhou and other places and establish the Chu family regime. Chu. The situation of the Three Kingdoms was officially formed, and Wei Ziyu was still the most powerful of the three political powers.
This situation will last for decades and will not be unified until much later.
Throughout the ages, things that have been together for a long time must be divided, and things that have been divided for a long time must be reunited.
Ye Zhen was counting the days when suddenly someone came to report that the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion was here and brought two big boxes. Ye Zhen asked someone to bring him.
He hurried over, saluted and said, "Madam."
Ye Zhen asked him why he came? What's the matter
The housekeeper said that he was worried that his wife would be unhappy in the palace alone, so he brought her clothes, jewelry and money. At the same time, he also said: "Madam, you see, since I have been with the Queen Mother for a long time, the snow has melted now." Well, when do we leave for Liangzhou?"
Ye Zhen said: "It may take some time. I still have some things to deal with. I will go after that."
"… whats the matter?"
"There is a hidden reason behind my mother's death. I can't let my mother die in vain. I want to seek justice for her and let her murderer be brought to justice."
The housekeeper was surprised, obviously he did not expect this to happen, but after Ye Zhen said this, he no longer advised Ye Zhen to go to Liangzhou, and left the palace after delivering the things.
Xiao Xi happily moved the things out and put them away: "It's great, the housekeeper still remembers us."
Ye Zhen opened a jewelry box and saw a butterfly golden hairpin fluttering its wings. When she entered the palace, she only took a few simple clothes and not a single piece of jewelry. Most of the things the housekeeper sent this time were from her. There are a few things that Fu likes to wear, and they are also the ones that Qin Zheng occasionally helps her wear.
He is also very good at drawing eyebrows, and sometimes the strokes he draws for her are a bit more moving than what she draws herself.
Qin Zheng is a very gentle man. He has never been angry with her or had any disputes with her in the half year they have been married. He is never harsh towards the people around him. Of course, these gentleness cannot hide that he is a very strategic and wise man. A scheming man cannot hide his ambition.
His uprising under the pseudonym Zheng Pei had been planned for a long time, at least for more than five years.
Of course, Qin Zheng's illness was fake, but it was also true. For example, Ye Zhen had long heard that the imperial physician who had treated him for many years died suddenly shortly after his death.
Even if he doesn't escape, it won't be long before his illness reaches the point of death.
Qin Zheng had calculated everything. He should have investigated her and understood her past, but he also missed one thing, that is, her scholar lover was not a real scholar, but the current emperor Wei Ziyu.
At the beginning, even the powerful Ye Xiang was deceived into thinking that "Wei Feng" was really Wei Feng, let alone Qin Zheng, who was very constrained in the capital and was not liked by the late emperor.
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Qin Zheng has received news from Beijing intermittently recently. One is that Wei Ziyu brought Ye Zhen into the palace to accompany the Queen Mother; the other is that Ye Zhen never came out after entering the palace; the third is that Ye Zhen asked Wei Ziyu to find the person who killed her mother. The murderer, until then, she will always be in the palace.
There is news from Liangzhou that they have not waited for anyone. Should they continue to wait
Qin Zheng lowered his eyes, and the scar on his handsome face that spread from his forehead to the corners of his eyes was particularly eye-catching.
He still remembered the time when he was about to leave. She must have felt something, so she kept asking him if she wanted to stay by his side for the rest of her life. She also loved to pester him and cling to him.
Couples are meant to be together for a long time.
What's more, he and she both have no family. His family was murdered, while she had a family but was murdered by her family. They were a match made in heaven.
He made a lifelong promise to her, but he originally thought they would see each other again only after being apart for a few months, but he never thought that things would go beyond his expectations.
Because he never thought that the person was Wei Ziyu. When he received the news that Wei Ziyu brought Ye Zhen into the palace, he was stunned for a long time. He lowered his eyebrows and secretly thought that Wei Ziyu was not a lustful person. Why would he use the name of the Queen Mother? Taking Ye Zhen into the palace
The housekeeper wrote a letter saying that Ye Zhen was fine in the palace and asked him not to worry about her. They would go to Liangzhou when the matter was settled. The substitute had already been arranged and waiting at Liangzhou Villa. They should be reunited soon.
And she didn't know he was still alive.
Now that others are not in the capital, they are beyond reach.
It was just that he had been waiting for a long time. When Xu Mingshan finally left the palace and traveled around the world, he came to Shu and met him.
Xu Mingshan met Qin Zheng and was very surprised and happy that he was still alive. Qin Zheng asked him if he had seen Ye Zhen in the palace? Xu Mingshan said: "Madam asked me for anti-pregnancy medicine in private. The Emperor values Madam very highly. I guess she has some evil intentions, but with Madam's integrity, she must have been forced by the Emperor!"
Qin Zheng didn't speak for a long time. He was originally extremely handsome, but now he looked quiet. The ugly scar from his forehead to the corner of his eye looked like Shura at night, which made people a little scared for no reason.