Yun Fenghuang had just seen off Concubine De when he received the news. He didn't say anything when he heard the news. He asked Chunjia if he had any other instructions and let the imperial attendant go.
"Empress." The Qing people watched the visitor go out and said softly, "What does your Majesty mean by this? Do you want your Majesty to ask the Empress Dowager? But they have already put up such a posture, I'm afraid it's hard to say! "
"King Mao has made such a big mistake, Your Majesty has to be busy dealing with the aftermath right now." Yun Fenghuang took a sip of tea and said calmly, "There are so many things in the past that are waiting for His Majesty to make up his mind. Things in the harem, of course. It’s up to me to worry about this.”
She thought for a while and said, "Let's go to the imperial grandmother's place first."
When we arrived at the residence of the Empress Dowager, we saw that the inside and outside were just as the imperial waiters said. The waiters who had served the Empress Dowager for many years were on guard and guarding the house as if they were facing a formidable enemy. There were pots of kerosene lying nearby.
Before Yun Fenghuang could get closer, an elder palace maid came to stop her and advised her coldly: "The Empress Dowager has already settled down. Please don't disturb her, please don't disturb her."
"What are you doing?" Yun Fenghuang looked around and said slowly, "I just walked through the water in the palace, and you act like this, but how do you endanger the safety of the emperor's grandmother?"
The palace maid said in a deep voice: "Thank you, the Empress, I am thinking about you! The maids are doing this according to the order of the Empress Dowager. The Empress Dowager is already old, so I ask the Empress and Your Majesty to be filial."
Yun Fenghuang said calmly: "I came here just because I couldn't worry about the emperor's grandmother."
"The Empress Dowager needs to rest now." The palace maid said, "So it is not appropriate to disturb her."
Yun Fenghuang pestered her for a few more words, but seeing that she was resolute, he didn't force her way in. He just said: "Nowadays, there are a lot of rumors outside. As the wife of the late Emperor Shenzong, doesn't the Imperial Grandmother have nothing to say?"
The palace maid said briefly: "The Empress Dowager is tired, and the maids dare not disturb her with these matters."
"Absurd!" Yun Fenghuang scolded, "Let's just pay for other things, but now it involves the two late emperors Shenzong and Xiaozong. How dare you hide such a big thing from the imperial grandmother? What are your intentions!?"
Immediately, he ordered someone to take down the maid, "If the imperial grandmother knew that such a major event happened in the previous dynasty, she would definitely not hesitate to ask for the posthumous reputation of the two late emperors. It must be you, a cheap maid, who deceived and concealed it, with ulterior motives. !”
"Empress!" The palace man frowned and shouted, "Empress, please be careful what you say! The Empress Dowager has an order. Anyone who dares to come forward will light the fire oil!"
"This is simply ridiculous!" This attitude had previously made the imperial attendants retreat in the face of difficulties, but it could not stop Yun Fenghuang. She said disapprovingly, "Is there anyone in the world who is indifferent to the slander of her husband and son? Especially the emperor's grandmother and Shenzong. Everyone knows that the late emperor and his wife had a deep love! This time, the imperial grandmother even ignored her illness and came to the palace to commemorate the late emperor Shenzong. This shows the deep love between the two elders back then! Xiaozong was the only biological child of the late emperor Shenzong and the imperial grandmother. Heirs. The posthumous names of these two people were framed by their clansmen, so that the majestic late emperor became the laughing stock of the world! As long as the imperial grandmother was still breathing, she must immediately come out to preside over the overall situation and refute those rumors that confuse right and wrong! "
"How could you avoid seeing me and let you and others stop me?!"
Yun Fenghuang quickly came to the conclusion, "This must be because you lowly servants have been bribed by King Mao and other rebellious officials and traitors, so you have such intentions!"
"Empress." Qing Xinren cooperated with understanding, "The maids have not seen the Empress Dowager in the past two days. How do you know how the Empress Dowager is doing now? Could it be that she has been harmed by these cheap maids? "
"That's exactly the truth." Yun Fenghuang shouted coldly, "King Mao was so crazy that he even assassinated Prince Zhou and his son outside the palace before. What else can't he do? The life experiences of the late Emperor Xiaozong and the regent, in this world, The one who knows the most is the Imperial Grandmother! As long as the Imperial Grandmother is around, their slander cannot succeed. Now that they dare to deceive everyone in the world, maybe they have already given away the Imperial Grandmother... "
Seeing their master and servant singing together, they beat the Queen Mother to death, and the crime was pinned on King Mao, the people inside couldn't hold it back anymore: a palace servant in a blue skirt hurried out, saying in a deep voice Said: "Queen, don't make trouble, the Queen Mother is here to invite you!"
Yun Fenghuang's attitude suddenly became friendly, he straightened his clothes as if nothing had happened, and said in a friendly manner: "Is Grandma Huang okay?"
The palace man said calmly: "If Your Majesty and Your Majesty can give the Empress Dowager more peace, the Empress Dowager will be better off."
"Look at what Auntie said." Yun Fenghuang said disapprovingly, "How could the Imperial Grandmother not like being surrounded by these juniors like me when she is old? She said she likes purity. It's just an old man without children forcing himself to comfort himself. Yes. The Xie family from which I was born is prosperous and has many elders, and I understand."
"..." The muscles on the palace man's face twitched, and he was too lazy to talk to her. He just made a gesture to invite her in, "Your Majesty, please!"
When the master and servant entered the inner room, they saw that the Emperor and Queen were indeed awake, leaning on the hidden bag languidly. Her expression was a bit more depressed than the last time they saw her.
Yun Fenghuang thought to himself, it seems that the incident of Shenzong's imperial edict had a big impact on this man.
Therefore, it is further proved that the posthumous edict is true.
"What's the matter?" The Empress Dowager glanced at her with a rather bored look in her eyes and said calmly.
"The Imperial Grandmother originally said that grandson-in-law should not disturb Shanyuan Temple." Yun Fenghuang didn't bother to talk in circles. After saluting, he picked a seat and sat down by himself. He said straight to the point, "Is it because of the posthumous edict? But why did he come here? In the hands of King Mao?"
The Empress Dowager said coldly: "Weren't you very conceited when you ordered people to burn Shan Yuan Temple? Why can't you figure it out now?"
Yun Fenghuang said: "Please ask Grandma Huang for some advice."
"I want to go."
Yun Fenghuang was not angry when she heard this. She really started to think about it. As she thought, she said: "My granddaughter-in-law was initially interested in Shanyuan Temple because she found out that you have been generous to Shanyuan Temple since the reign of Emperor Shenzong. Granted. Although this Taoist temple is rumored to have a close relationship with the royal family, in fact, it was during the reign of King Sejong that you went to the temple in person and had close contact with it. After Shenzong ascended the throne, you did not visit twice. By the time of Xiaozong, You don’t even care about world affairs, but Ji Sheng, a common man, actually went there many times under the pretext of asking for a son.”
"But your generous gifts never stop."
"I just thought that even if you have a noble status and don't care about such things, you still can't afford to feed a person like this for many years, right?"
"I can't help but be a little curious."
"So I found some old people from the palace who came down during the reign of King Sejong and asked about it."
When she said this, she carefully observed the expression of the Empress Dowager.
But the Empress Dowager didn't have any expression on her face, she just listened calmly.
He even urged: "Continue."
"... The imperial grandmother is very poor, so my granddaughter-in-law will not go into details." Yun Fenghuang thought for a while and said, "You and the late Emperor Shenzong used Shanyuan Temple to plot against Shizong's last successor, Qu. Queen, right?"
The Empress Dowager just sneered and said nothing.
Yun Fenghuang didn't care and said: "It's just that in the process of this calculation, you two also fell into the trap. Earlier, my granddaughter-in-law couldn't figure out what secret it was that made you spend so many years in silence. Seal it with silver. Now it seems that it should be the edict in King Mao's hand."
The Queen Mother did not comment, but asked: "Do you regret it?"
"Why should grandson-in-law regret it?" Yun Fenghuang smiled, "This matter of sesame seeds and rotten millet was neither caused by grandson-in-law nor was it something that your majesty couldn't solve. Now that we know the whole story, we have solved these problems. The doubts that many clan members have encountered over the years are better than being confused, right? I can only blame you, the old man, for failing to restrain your natal family, so that the late Emperor Shenzong was not at ease, but still left a will to restrain it, so that now it is Your Majesty, you have brought so much trouble to the royal family!"
"You are still as sharp-tongued as ever." The Empress Dowager said calmly, "Since you think this is not a big deal, why do you have to come to see the Ai family?"
Yun Fenghuang said: "Of course it's because it happened many years ago. The general story can be inferred now, but many details still need to be solved by you, old man."
She smiled and said, "For example, the death of Princess Yushan... This is really confusing. The late Emperor Shenzong could even tolerate the regent giving birth to two sons, and he still holds the throne and the position of marquis. Why can't he Tolerate a princess?"
"Because it's not necessary." The Empress Dowager glanced at her and actually answered, "King Yi and Marquis Yongchun cannot threaten the emperor's throne, but their existence can prove that the emperor has the capacity to accommodate people, and to a certain extent Go up and assist today. At least until the princes grow up, the emperor needs their help. These two are useful, as long as they stop breeding and give them two titles, it doesn't matter."
"But Xiaozong's three daughters are more or less under the emperor's control."
"If their descended husband's family is helpful to the emperor, and their hearts are devoted to Chunjia, then they can stay. As you said, the late emperor is not a person without wisdom. It doesn't matter if the canonization of a mere princess and princess is given to an outsider. , after all, it’s just a girl.”
"But Yun'an's husband's family is of no use to the emperor at that time, so why let his descendants steal wealth?"
Yun Fenghuang was stunned and said, "Then why is Jinxi and Yun'an's youngest son still alive? And Minghui's many heirs did not die violently?"
The Empress Dowager said indifferently: "Because the Ai family stopped us."
She said calmly, "No one can be ruthless. The three girls, especially Minghui, were raised by the Ai family. The Ai family is not ruthless to King Yi, let alone them?"
After a pause, she seemed to remember something, and then said, "Oh, by the way, there is another reason for Yushan's death, that is, Yun An is dishonest. She really thinks that people like the Ai family are dishonest because of her private dealings with Ji Minggan. Do you know? After Yushan left, she fell seriously ill and said she was grieving for her daughter. Whether it was because of this or because she knew it and was frightened, she probably only knew it. "
The Empress Dowager said calmly, "Among the three girls, Minghui is the most straightforward and frank, and the Ai family likes her temperament the most, so she plays more nonsense, and the Ai family tolerates it."
"Yun'an is the most petty, and the Ai family really doesn't have that much patience for her."
"Speaking of Minghui." Yun Fenghuang raised his eyebrows and asked, "May I ask the imperial grandmother, why does Ji Sheng, a common man, hide Minghui's true appearance?"