"Let her come in. The Ai family wants to see what kind of medicine she sells in her gourd!" Empress Dowager Yuan snorted softly after hearing these words, and ordered people to bring Yun Fenghuang in and wait for her to salute, just like last time. Without shouting, he asked calmly: "Well, why would anyone from the palace come to the Ai family? The former queen asked herself to leave the palace, and her successor is undecided. The prince and the Ai family trust you, so they entrusted the palace affairs to you. It turned out to be good for you. , they started a big fight after returning from the Ai family, I’m afraid no one inside or outside knows what happened in the Xuanqing Palace these past two days!”
"Earlier, they said that Mrs. Melia has a bad temper. The Ai family thinks that you are worse than Ms. Melia!"
"They are all raised by father and mother, but the people in your palace are inferior?"
"Seeing Tian Tian being carried out bloody, those who didn't know thought that the head of Xuanqing Palace had been replaced by a cruel official!"
These words were picky in every aspect, except that he suspected that Yun Fenghuang's attack on the palace people in the past two days was out of dissatisfaction with his loving mother, the Empress Dowager, and his harsh methods were even more harsh than the recognized palace concubine killer Yuan Yuniang.
Yun Fenghuang smiled apologetically and said: "The Queen Mother is so beautiful, I have been a little strict with my subordinates these past two days, but it's not for others' sake, but because they didn't take good care of the eldest prince."
"It's useless. Isn't it because you, the person in charge, don't care about it in the first place?" Empress Dowager Yuan said calmly, "The eldest prince has just landed, so why haven't there been any problems before? It can be seen that you have been distracted these days. It’s no longer with the child, so the people below noticed it and avoided it!”
Yun Fenghuang quickly knelt down to plead guilty, and finally explained that those who were carried out of the Xuanqing Palace in the past two days had evidence of evil intentions, and they were definitely not innocent. "I am inherently unlucky, and I cannot personally continue to produce children for His Majesty," he said. , so I regard the eldest prince and Zhaoqing as more important than my own life. They are still so young, and it is too late for me to accumulate virtue for them. Even if I want to clean up the Xuanqing Palace, how can I dare to commit evil indiscriminately?"
These words made Queen Mother Yuan's originally cold and indifferent expression stiffen, and her eyes became a bit dangerous when she looked down.
The grudge between the two of them was too deep. Just like how Yun Fenghuang suspected that Yun Fenghuang wanted to seize power because of her casual words of concern, now whether Yun Fenghuang did it intentionally or not, Queen Mother Yuan suspected that she was connoting Yuan Niang.
To be precise, the Queen Mother suspected that what Yun Fenghuang meant was that the reason why Chunjia's real eldest son, Duke Xiangzhuo of Qi, died in infancy was because Yuan Yuniang abused the palace and did not accumulate virtues for his children!
"..." Queen Mother Yuan remained expressionless for a moment, then slowly said, "Xiao Yun, do you know your guilt?"
Yun Fenghuang knelt obediently: "I failed to take good care of the eldest prince, I feel guilty!"
The Queen Mother smiled sadly: "That's not what the Ai family is talking about."
Turning around, he said, "Bring those two people from last night."
"Your Majesty." Zhan Liu frowned slightly. Although their master and servant analyzed it and believed that the exposure of the two palace men should be targeted and not just nonsense, hasn't it been verified yet
It was a bit impulsive to testify against a virtuous concubine without any preparation, especially a virtuous concubine like Yun Fenghuang who had been torn all the way up since she entered the palace...
The most important thing is that the Queen Mother had planned to communicate with the Emperor in private.
At this moment, the emperor has not come yet.
However, Empress Dowager Yuan was touched sorely and ignored Zhan Liu's euphemism to stop her. She directly asked people to bring the two palace ladies up and asked them to state their identification of the master again.
When Yun Fenghuang was in front of him, the two palace men were so trembling that they could hardly kneel unsteadily.
Even so, the rhetoric is still the same as yesterday's report and the steward of Chunyou Palace.
"The Concubine Xian has always been very articulate, but she doesn't know what to say now?" Empress Dowager Yuan's eyes were cold, looking directly at His Highness's kneeling Yun Fenghuang, and her words were mocking.
"My Lady, someone in the palace exposed these two people that they were lazy and their hands and feet were not very clean. My concubine was never shorter than they were eating and drinking, but they didn't even let go of the chickens in the kitchen. The first one even stole several of them. , I don’t know where they went." Yun Fenghuang glanced at the two palace men and said calmly, "I was planning to deal with them today. Probably for this reason, they were afraid of the palace rules, so they found The Queen Mother is here to falsely accuse me."
Empress Dowager Yuan said: "You said they made false accusations? Is there any evidence for that?"
Yun Fenghuang asked back: "But I don't know if these two cheap maids have credentials?"
"Is the Ai family asking you now or are you asking the Ai family?!" Empress Dowager Yuan grabbed the tea bowl and threw it at it. The two of them were far away from each other now, so it didn't hit Yun Fenghuang, but it also fell on the ground in front of her. The tea splashed out and stained her clothes, "Stop your nonsense in front of the Ai family." The Ai family asked, and you answered, "If you dare to try any more tricks, we'll see if the people here in the Ai family are useful." use!"
As she said this, a strong palace man began to roll up his sleeves beside her.
It seems that Yun Fenghuang would come up and slap him if he dared to say anything.
Yun Fenghuang was silent for a while, then said slowly: "Your Majesty, these maids in the Second Palace are all rough servants, not concubine's personal attendants. How do you know these many things? It's just hearsay and far-fetched. If not other things, let's just talk about common people. Mrs. Zheng, she did go to Huanhua Palace late at night, but she didn’t mention the matter of Concubine Shu at all. Please think about it, I just entered the palace at that time and was not familiar with Mrs. Zheng. If Mrs. Zheng discussed with me the murder of Concubine Shu , aren’t you afraid that I will turn around and tell Concubine Shu the whole story?”
"After all, I and Concubine Shu are sisters of the same race, and I and Concubine Shu's biological sister, Concubine Xie, are even more like sisters!"
"Zheng was just telling me something about other people."
Empress Dowager Yuan said coldly: "You know what kind of sisters you, Concubine Shu and Concubine Xie are! Stop being so pretentious here!"
Yun Fenghuang lowered his head and said nothing.
Zhan Liu thought about it for a while and asked: "Since the Concubine Xian said that the commoner Zheng did visit you at night, but did not mention Concubine Shu, I don't know what Concubine Zheng said to you? That's so late at night. , Mrs. Zheng can’t come to you specifically to chat with you, can she?”
"..." Yun Fenghuang opened his mouth, looking embarrassed, and glanced at Queen Mother Yuan.
Empress Dowager Yuan scolded impatiently: "Just say what you say, and stop doing these pretentious things! The Ai family is not the prince's son, so you have no choice but to be charming!"
Yun Fenghuang responded in a low voice and said timidly: "Common lady Zheng... what I told my concubine that night was... um... Mrs. Chunke!"
Knowing that this answer would definitely anger Empress Dowager Yuan even more, she hurriedly added, "But I didn't agree!"
"You didn't agree?!" Empress Dowager Yuan was stiff for a moment. She quickly thought of a series of things. Before her summer vacation last year, although Chunjia had already begun to be interested in Yun Fenghuang, she was not interested in Yuan Fu Niang. He said he was very cold, but he was still willing to coax him.
Later, during the summer vacation, Shengjia stayed in Wannian County. Due to the emergency of the Empress Dowager, Chunjia rushed to the Qishan Palace with Yun Fenghuang and a lightly dressed concubine. On the way, he was assassinated and fell off a cliff. After many twists and turns, when he returned to the palace, Chunjia was still worried about Yuan Niang asked for help and comforted her in every possible way... But then, the concubine Shu committed suicide, the commoner Zheng was grieved, the queen was euphemistically usurped of power, and Yun Fenghuang assisted in the six palaces, rising rapidly!
The Queen Mother felt dizzy due to overexcitement for a moment. She subconsciously held on to the few cases at hand to steady herself, and shouted sharply, "You are a cheap maid who has always been ambitious. You have never been peaceful for a day since you entered the palace. You Will you agree?!"
"If you don't promise, my mother will fall out of favor?!"
"You won't promise that your mother will give birth to King Qi prematurely?!"
"If you don't agree, King Qi will die young?!"
"The Ai family said that although Niang Niang is a little willful and indulgent, she has always been a royal child. She was deliberately set up during her pregnancy earlier, so she lost her son. Last year, she got pregnant again with great difficulty. She is just like her darling. No matter what, How can you not care about the heirs in your belly when you feel wronged?!"
"The two co-authors are you two bastards—how dare you?!!!"
Zhan Liu was frightened and stepped forward to help him: "Your Majesty, please calm down... Your Majesty, please calm down!"
She and Empress Dowager Yuan looked at each other with tearful eyes, and both the master and the servant knew each other tacitly: Empress Dowager Yuan's anger was true, and she did not expect that Zheng Shangchu and Yun Fenghuang had secretly planned to deal with Yuan Niang.
But it's not all true outrage.
It was also Empress Dowager Yuan who discovered that this was an excellent opportunity.
An opportunity to resolve the bad blood between Yuan Nian and Chun Jia - Yuan Nian's fall from favor was due to her years of being unruly and exhausting Chun Jia's patience, but it was also due to Yun Fenghuang and other concubines secretly sowing discord and slandering each other, and Yuan Nian's disgrace During the pregnancy, she still refused to repent, resulting in premature birth, which made Gong Xiangzhuo destined to die young from birth... Among them, Gong Xiangzhuo can be said to have directly given Chunjia a reason not to set foot in Huzhu Palace from now on.
Even Empress Dowager Yuan could not say anything about the emperor.
After all, Gong Xiangzhuo was Chunjia's eldest son.
If this child was murdered by someone else, it would certainly be unreasonable for him not to visit his biological mother. But this child could have been born at full term and become a strong and healthy eldest prince, but due to the birth mother's nonsense, he was born early and died young... He did not punish Yuan Yuniang, and promoted her to the queen mother's will according to the Queen Mother's wishes. Very kind.
Yuan Yuniang has not been seen since, and no one can blame her.
If we look into it more carefully, this Mrs. Chunke is both the biological mother of his eldest son and his enemy, right
No matter how much Empress Dowager Yuan favored her niece, she could not say anything in the face of this fact.
But now, she saw a hope of clearing Yuan Niang's life.
All of this is a conspiracy between Zheng Sangchu and Yun Fenghuang - counting the time, when Zheng Sangchu went to find Yun Fenghuang to conspire, the only pregnant concubines in the palace were Zheng Sangchu and Yuan Yuniang!
Neither of them had given birth yet. Even if Zheng Shangchu got pregnant first, there was no guarantee that she would give birth to a prince.
What if she gave birth to a princess, but Yuan Niang gave birth to a prince? Would Zheng Sangchu be willing to do so
In addition, the relationship between Yuan Yuniang and the concubines of the Sixth Palace was not good, and Zheng Sangchu had a motive to murder the pregnant Yuan Yuniang!
Not to mention Yun Fenghuang, this master became famous by stepping on Yuan Yuniang.
Can she watch Yuan Yuniang successfully give birth to the emperor's heir, and the mother's status as the most important person based on her son's wealth has been stabilized, and the humiliation and embarrassment she had previously inflicted on her through calculations be doubled back to herself
The Queen Mother breathed out softly and ignored the Concubine Xian who was still arguing and seemed extremely anxious: "Go and invite Your Majesty! Hurry!"