This doubt has been hidden in Yun Fenghuang's heart for a long time, and now he finally has the opportunity to ask it out.
The Queen Mother was silent for a moment and said slowly: "After Ji Sheng left, Minghui had no one to control her, so she gradually lost weight. Especially in the days before her death, she lost weight rapidly... her outline became clearer. You should know who she looks like. stop?"
"Yes." Yun Fenghuang nodded, "It is precisely for this reason that the granddaughter-in-law can't figure it out. Although Minghui is unworthy of the late emperor, she clearly looks like Ji's daughter. In this case, why should she hide her true appearance? The outside world does not know her life experience. , isn’t it a bad thing that the emperor’s daughter resembles her mother’s family?”
The Empress Dowager said softly: "You followed Ling Zi when you first entered the palace. You must know that Ling Zi has never been trusted by the Ji family?"
Yun Fenghuang thought quickly: "Could it be that Ji Sheng did this not to hide the truth from you and the people left behind by the late Emperor Shenzong, but to hide the Ji family?!"
"Otherwise?" The Empress Dowager sneered, "Sheng'er and Xiaozong were a young couple, and they were already quite harmonious. After having biological flesh and blood, let alone... She was ignorant when she was young, and she didn't know Xiaozong's life experience. , but she openly helped Xiaozong to fight against her family. Even though she was turned around by her family, they could no longer believe her. According to Minghui’s private words, she killed her mother and took away her daughter, and adopted her from a concubine. She acted as the legitimate daughter, so that her subordinates would not always complain about her having nothing to do. At that time, there was indeed a concubine in the palace who was pregnant and gave birth around the same time as her."
She said indifferently, "If Ji knew that the child belonged to her and Xiaozong at that time, she would have had to get rid of him."
"That's why she doesn't dare to let Ming Hui reveal that she has Ji's blood."
"It's just that this secret is too heavy, and she neither dares nor can't bear to let Minghui know it herself."
"After she leaves, Ji will not be able to protect herself. Ming Hui works hard to lose weight in order to look good... and no one will care."
Yun Fenghuang was quite surprised: "But in the final analysis, Ji Sheng, a commoner, is just a queen. Back then, Emperor Xiaozong was suppressed by the Ji family and couldn't breathe. How could the Ji family be so unmerciful to their legitimate daughter? Minghui is just a queen after all. Even if the girl is the daughter of Xiaozong and Ji Sheng, so what?"
The Empress Dowager glanced at her with a playful look in her eyes and said: "You are just a queen? You are also a queen now. The emperor cannot come to the Ai family even if he wants to. Once you come, does the Ai family have to let you in? You still have to let her in?" It's just that she came from a humble background. When she was young, she was the legitimate daughter of my Ji family. With the Ai family in front of her, she was cultivated as the mother of the country from the moment she landed. She was also very aware of many things in the family. If Xiaozong hadn't been the late emperor, Heir, I'm afraid that Ji will be betrayed by her long ago!"
"With such a pickpocketing daughter, how can any family not be on guard?"
"Moreover, when she hid Minghui, she was not only worried that Ji would be harmful to Minghui, but she was also worried that Minghui would become her weakness."
"After all, if Ji uses Minghui to force her to do something..."
"I'm afraid it will be difficult for her to say no."
"But if Mrs. Ji also feels that Minghui is not actually her fault, but is just a cover to hide her from others, naturally she won't care too much."
After a pause, he continued, "otherwise, do you think Ji Minggan was not interested in Minghui at all in what he did back then, but he preferred teasing Yun'an? He didn't take Minghui seriously because in the eyes of the Ji family's children at that time, Minghui was originally Not a real legitimate daughter."
"Dare I ask the imperial grandmother." Yun Fenghuang became curious, "What did Ji Sheng do in the first place to make the Ji family so taboo on her? But after the granddaughter-in-law entered the palace, it seemed that the relationship between Ji Sheng and the Ji family... It’s not as bad as you imagined?”
The Empress Dowager said calmly: "You committed suicide to have children in order to become a concubine. When Ji Sheng was young, he was a little more ruthless than you. She directly collected all kinds of corruption and perversion of the law in the Ji family, and she also wanted to take the lead in exposing Duke Ye. If... these things succeed, the entire Ji family will be almost finished. Even the Ai family will be disgraced."
"It's just her. Whether she can sit firmly in the back seat in the future is a question!"
"If you were Duke Ye and others, what would you do?"
Yun Fenghuang: "..."
She suddenly felt that Ji was not as stingy as she thought.
Her descendants, no, there is no need to distinguish between generations, just say that Kang An, her biological daughter, if she eats her inside and outside like this when she grows up, she will probably tear her apart with her own hands!
The Ji family actually let Ji Sheng continue to be the queen and dowager. This is really...
A famous family really has magnanimity!
only…
Yun Fenghuang couldn't help but ask: "How kind was Xiaozong to Ji Sheng back then, so that Ji Sheng repaid him so recklessly?"
Did she not see at all that Ji Sheng was the kind of life-and-death master who could love
By the way, is there something wrong with the standard of Ji’s goddaughter
Although I have never met Xiaozong, when Chunjia was young, he was a magnificent emperor with both talent and beauty, and a gentle temperament. Why didn't he see Ji Lingzi seeking death and betraying the family for him
Is this because Xiaozong's methods are more sophisticated, or is it because Chunjia is not good at coaxing girls
Just as he was wondering, he heard the Empress Dowager sneer and say sarcastically: "Is it because you have tried every means to win favor over the years because you love Chunjia?"
"Of course." Yun Fenghuang said without thinking, "My granddaughter-in-law's feelings for Your Majesty can be revealed by the sun and the moon!"
The Empress Dowager nodded lightly: "That's right. Where in the world did the sun and the moon come up with all the effort to expose you?"
Yun Fenghuang said sternly: "The Imperial Grandmother clearly knows that if my granddaughter-in-law hadn't loved His Majesty to the extreme, she wouldn't have wanted to live anymore when she was scheming against others, so why have she struggled till now?"
"My Ji family was originally from a famous family. When Ji Sheng was born, the entire Ji family was like a raging fire cooking oil and prospering." The Queen Mother sneered and made it clear that she did not believe her nonsense. She looked slightly nostalgic and said softly. , "You can imagine how rich and honorable her life was when she was a child and a teenager, surrounded by stars."
"Even if she enters the palace as a crown princess, no one from top to bottom dares to disobey her wishes."
At this point, the Empress Dowager sighed and said quietly, "Such a child, what do you think she would think when the family continues to give her instructions?"
Yun Fenghuang was startled.
The Empress Dowager said calmly: "You yourself are not someone who works hard for the love of your children. How do you think that the daughter-in-law carefully selected by my Ji family will be naive and ignorant? Ji Sheng's disagreement with Ji family, From the beginning, it was not for Xiaozong, but for herself... She was young at that time and didn't know many things. She felt that since she was the crown prince and the future mother of the country, why should she be a puppet for the family? After becoming the queen After that, I became even more impatient with Ji's various instructions and requests. Moreover, in this world, there are certainly idiots who cater to their parents' family based on their own flesh and blood. But that's not the case with Ji Sheng."
"She had nothing to do at that time, but she was already very tired of Ji."
"There are many innuendoes in front of the Ai family. The implication is that since she has entered the Gongxiang family's house, she is the Gongxiang family's daughter-in-law, so she should be considered for the Gongxiang family."
"I don't feel sorry for my husband, at least I feel sorry for my children."
At this point, the Empress Dowager paused and said softly, "She may not be a good daughter, but in fact, she is really a good mother who does her best. The Ai family still remembers that she came to see the Ai family alone that year , knelt in front of the Aijia, crying bitterly, making the Aijia feel sorry for Xiaozong, and said... Even though she had nothing to do, she could already imagine that if the Ji family continued to exist, even her biological daughter would not feel sorry for her mother-in-law. , how can we continue to persecute her children even more in the future?"
"If Xiaozong was the flesh and blood of the late emperor, even if she was not from the Ai family, she would not have ended up like she did later."
"I can only say that fate has its way with people."
"... Imperial Grandmother, there is something unclear about my grandson's daughter-in-law." Yun Fenghuang said in his heart that this was reasonable. After all, a high-ranking family could inherit the family for a long time, and it was essential to have a certain way of raising children.
Ji Sheng was chosen as the royal tomb wife, so it was unlikely that she would be easily coaxed by men.
Moreover, she can only rely on her family to be the Crown Princess and Queen. If her family fails, what good fruits can she reap
That is to say, it is for the sake of oneself and one's own children that a pampered daughter-in-law is thinking about giving her mother's family a ride.
After all, if she puts Yun Fenghuang in Ji Sheng's position, she won't be polite to Ji.
After pondering for a moment, Yun Fenghuang said, "Since the Ji family knew from the beginning that Xiaozong is not a member of the royal family, why did you choose the crown prince from the Ji family in the first place?"
"Isn't it that the late Emperor Shenzong was worried that the Ji family would make a mistake and admit that Xiaozong was the heir of Shenzong just because they had a princess and a future queen?"
If she were Shenzong, she would not let the daughter of an important minister become the princess.
Isn’t this a ready-made help for fakes
If the Ji family had not given birth to a rebellious daughter like Ji Sheng, who had a docile personality, she might have let Ji Sheng and Xiaozong have a son long ago, pretending to be confused and continue to be a maternal relative!
"Who told you that the person the late emperor entrusted to monitor in order to restore the Gongxiang family lineage was Ji?" Hearing this, the Empress Dowager showed a strange look and said, "Or do you think that the emperor just ascended the throne that year? Duke Yi took the initiative to join him. Is it true that the emperor was born extraordinary and possesses the aura of a king, so that important ministers like Duke Yi would fall in love with him at first sight and bow to him?"
Yun Fenghuang was shocked and said: "Dong Yi Guo?! But forgive my granddaughter-in-law for speaking frankly, in these years, grandson's daughter-in-law really didn't realize that he actually had such means to deal with the city government?!"
If Duke Yi Guo was the minister entrusted by Shenzong to pass the throne back to the Gongxiang family, why would he have been so disgraced by her coming from behind all these years that he could not even save his legitimate daughter-in-law, legitimate daughter-in-law, and legitimate grandson? !
Can't this master be the best in court battles but a mere layman in palace battles and house battles
The Empress Dowager said with a half-smile, "Him? He is just following orders, but how can he be in charge of the overall situation?"
After a pause, she said slowly, "Don't you think that the Imperial City Division in the hands of the emperor is somewhat unworthy of its name?"