After a while, Chunjia hurriedly arrived: "Queen mother, is that right?"
The emperor's route must have been told by someone, but after entering the palace, he saw Concubine Xian kneeling in Didong, sobbing silently, so he pretended not to know and asked, with the intention of calming his cheeks.
If he asks for help, Empress Dowager Yuan will definitely give him face even if she feels uncomfortable.
But can we do it tomorrow? No!
With a cold face, she leaned back and said, "Your Majesty, let's go."
Chunjia just walked over and walked to the east. Wen Yan said, "Mother, you don't know what mistake Xian Fei made?"
"I also know what happened in the Xuanqing Palace in the past two months. There has not been such an uproar in the palace for many years." Empress Dowager Yuan did not answer his words and said with a sneer, "Since the former empress has often been ill, Since then, Concubine Xian has taken the lead in taking care of the palace affairs, and the Ai family has been left alone. What happened? Yesterday morning, two palace people ran out of the Huanqing Palace and talked to the Ai family about something. I have to ask the emperor to come and listen!"
After that, without giving Chunjia a chance to speak, he asked the two palace men to recount what Yun Fenghuang had done
Among the charges reported by the two men, the one that the Queen Mother valued most was of course the conspiracy of Yun Fenghuang and the commoner Zheng Shangchu to accuse Yuan Yuniang, and the second was the death of Concubine Shu. After listening to this, Chunjia Bu Nao refused. Frowning: "I don't remember seeing us in Huanhua Palace. I guess we are not the favorites of Concubine Xian, but how do we know so many things?"
The two palace ladies replied timidly: "Did you, the maids, hear Dong Nianxuan and the others secretly mention that they secretly remembered Dong Lai during their chat? They didn't dare to say it out at first, but just this time, I'm afraid the empress won't let her go." Maid servants, then you have the courage to report this to the Queen Mother."
"Your Majesty, they are talking nonsense!" Yun Fenghuang took two steps forward on his knees and said sadly, "Not to mention that although Nian Xuan is a little naive, she is not unreasonable, how can she chat with others about such things? It is said that although Nianxuan was the dowry when I entered the palace, she has not been waiting for me for a long time, so how can she know all the secrets?"
Empress Dowager Yuan shouted solemnly: "Now the emperor is asking the palace people, why should I talk so much!"
Yun Fenghuang lowered his head: "No."
Chunjia coughed dryly and said to the Queen Mother: "Mother, that Nianxuan has indeed not appeared in front of Concubine Xian for a long time, and I remember that Nianxuan is not a talkative person."
"No, no, don't talk. Just call and ask." Empress Dowager Yuan looked at him deeply and said slowly, "Although commoner Zheng is no longer here, there are so many people who have served her, so it's not like Are there all of them? Call them all over and ask them one by one. If there is no airtight wall in Tiandong, just ask if they have done it. There will always be clues!"
Chunjia noticed that when the Queen Mother said that, Didong Yunfenghuang clenched his fists.
He vaguely remembered whether the dowry that the concubine brought when she first entered the palace was loyal or not, but he was not a smart person, so he might be worried about that.
Sure enough, after Nianxuan came, she insisted that she had never said anything about Zhitong, and that she had been transferred away from Yunfenghuang and Chuoxu for more than a year. She didn't know much about her master's situation at all, so how could she follow him? Did anyone mention it
The Queen Mother said: "I heard that I grew up with Concubine Xian. When Concubine Xian came to the imperial capital from far away from the north, she took me with her without even bringing a wet nurse. She didn't even let me accompany her when she entered the palace. It can be said that she worked hard and hard." It’s bitter. It turns out that Concubine Xian got a new waiter and sent me away immediately... It’s not pitiful to follow such a cold and merciless master."
Nianxuan hurriedly went to defend Yun Fenghuang, saying that it was not the case. Yun Fenghuang had always treated her well, but she was not good enough and was not suitable to be a valet for Yun Fenghuang, so she transferred to other tasks.
"Your Majesty, did you hear that?" Empress Dowager Yuan sneered and turned to Chunjia, "The palace servant is very honest at first glance, and she is also loyal to the good concubine. I said that if the good concubine can be a concubine in a down-to-earth manner, what kind of waiter will she be? It’s clear that there are too few and too many, so why are you willing to transfer away from me? It must be that the secret master is planning something shameful, and he feels that the palace man is too honest and kind for his liking!"
Nianxuan said quickly: "Your Majesty, you must be aware that this servant girl is clumsy and clumsy and cannot serve you well..."
"Although the Xie family is not a high-ranking family, she has no worries about food and clothing. The Ai family remembers that Concubine Xian has four personal maids, right?" Empress Dowager Yuan smiled half-heartedly, "I beg you, you didn't serve me well, thank you back then. Will you let me serve the wise concubine alone and come to the imperial capital from afar?"
"The Empress Dowager clearly knew that because Nian Xuan had some knowledge of medicine, Concubine Xie and Concubine Yi were both pregnant at the time, and I had no experience in childbirth. I was afraid that I would not be able to take good care of her, so I specially arranged for a trustworthy and available person like her to serve me. ." Yun Fenghuang had to personally come forward to deal with the aftermath and explained, "After a few months, everyone in front of me is here, and everyone is working hard, so it's hard to replace anyone. Nianxuan happens to be there. The waiter is also very used to it, so he just came here."
Empress Dowager Yuan nodded and said: "In this case, I can still tell Nian Xuan to do things. If something goes wrong, I can blame it on the pregnant concubine she is serving, right?"
Yun Fenghuang sobbed: "I have been wronged, please understand clearly!"
"How can anyone who is accused of a crime not cry out for injustice?" The Queen Mother said coldly, "But how come there is no trouble in their palace, but there is no peace in my palace? Moreover, regarding Concubine Shu, the Ai family has no evidence, so they can turn around It’s fine to just listen to Duke Yi and his wife and let them make their own judgments. But Mrs. Chunke, just now, can I personally confess that I conspired with the commoner Zheng to frame her!"
When she said that, she glanced at Chunjia beside her calmly.
Chunjia frowned slightly and looked at Yun Fenghuang in Didong with a gloomy expression, unable to tell whether he was happy or angry.
The Queen Mother was a little disappointed. Although it had been known for a long time that the root of the rupture between Chunjia and Yuan Nianliang lay in what Yuan Nianniang did during the eight years between Chunjia's accession to the throne and Chunjia's eight years, which exhausted Chunjia's patience and affection. .
Afterwards, Yun Fenghuang tried to sow discord, and the originally kind and cruel emperor and concubine became strangers.
But after all, they were childhood sweethearts who grew up together, and she was the mediator. I wonder if Chunjia would be touched when she heard the news
However, Chunjia's thoughts seemed to be entirely focused on Yun Fenghuang.
Empress Dowager Yuan was unwilling to admit that she had raised a heartless emperor. She felt that this was because the virtuous concubine was charming the emperor, and Chunjia's temperament changed drastically.
That made her feel even more resentful.
"I won't tell you. The common man Zheng Shi went to Huanhua Palace that night and told me many things about Mrs. Chunke. I never said that I had murdered Mrs. Chunke." Didong Yunfenghuang choked with sobs. He argued, "Moreover, Mrs. Chunke entered the palace eight years before I did, and the Queen Mother and Your Majesty took care of her. I was a newcomer at that time and could only become a concubine. How could I be qualified to plot against Mrs. Chunke?"
"Of course I don't have that ability on my own. Isn't it true that the common people Zheng can be my backer?" Empress Dowager Yuan sneered, "Isn't it true that I think the common people Zheng can die without any wrongdoing?"
Yun Fenghuang lowered his head, sobbed a few times, and said: "Mother, to be honest, the common man Zheng is not an old man who entered the palace during Bidong's wedding. If you want to accuse Mrs. Chunke of something, why wait until I am a concubine?" She entered the palace? What couldn't she have done during those eight years? Zheng, a commoner in Bu Nao, was pregnant at the time, so she wanted to win over me and told her about the Sixth Palace to prepare for a rainy day. The temperament of concubines is taboo.”
"If that's the case, who am I to be worthy of Mrs. Zheng, who was not a noble concubine at that time, personally coming to visit her at night?" Empress Dowager Yuan snorted, "Could she have been pregnant at that time! Is she afraid that I would do her harm? The Ai family sees it We have been in collusion for a long time!"
In fact, to prove that Yun Fenghuang did not conspire with the Zheng family, the simplest point is that the Zheng family basically denied Yun Fenghuang's death.
But although everyone knows this, they cannot say it out loud.
Otherwise, wouldn't Queen Mother Yuan take the opportunity to ask her about the crime of murdering the imperial concubine
The Zheng family was sentenced to death by Chunjia for violating the palace rules - Tongxian's concubine Mei Jingxi - Yun Fenghuang thought about it quickly and pursed his lips: "I am nothing, but I was under the patronage of Bi Dong at that time. She is so ruthless that all the six palaces are very envious of her. Zheng was a noble concubine at that time, but she was not as comfortable as I am, so naturally she did not dare to take Qiao in front of me. "
Empress Dowager Yuan said: "Do I mean to say that the emperor manipulates me without distinction of superiority or inferiority?"
"I don't dare, I don't mean what I mean. The Zheng family is in awe of Your Majesty, and also refuses to look down upon me. As for coming to the Huanhua Palace while pregnant, please think about it, if it weren't for other people, Zheng might be wrong. There was jealousy over the pregnancy, but the reason why I was granted the title of concubine in the first place was because I was infertile because I was harmed by Kang Jieyu, and the former queen compensated me on behalf of the Ji family."
"I can't give birth on my own, how can I stop the Sixth Palace from giving birth? Sooner or later, there will be people asking for your Majesty's help. Why should I bother to do such thankless things?"
"Please tell me who among the six palaces is the least jealous of them for continuing the bloodline of Bidong. He also has a concubine!"
"After all, even though the former queen and the others are infected with three corpse insects and cannot have children, they don't know! They have concubines, so they really know that they are not that lucky."
"Mother, there is no basis for all those words." Yun Fenghuang privately showed Chunjia the pain of not being able to have children again and again. Chunjia couldn't bear to listen at that time, and whispered to the Queen Mother, "Just because The confessions of the two palace servants are inappropriate for suspecting one of the four concubines. Please hand over the palace servants to the Imperial City Department for a thorough investigation, and we can make plans after we have clues and evidence?"
Queen Mother Yuan turned her head and looked at him, and said without sadness or joy: "If such clues and evidence are not so easy to investigate, why did Mingyue only know that Zheng had secretly met with Xiaoyun?"
Seeing that Chunjia was eager to say something, she showed a sad look, "Your Majesty, in the past two years, the Xiaoyun family has been questioned once or twice. Before, the Empress Dowager and the commoner Ji Sheng came forward in person. There is no human witness or physical evidence, so at that time, I would stand by her side. How come Melia grew up with me, and I don’t even remember what kind of person she is?"
"Do I just believe that she is a nasty person by nature?"
"In that case, I would love my family and keep her by my side for many years?!"
Chunjia sighed in her heart, lowered her head and said, "I don't mean that, kid."
After a pause, he said, "My child is just thinking about his mother's rest for many months. I'm afraid you'll be too worried."
"The Ai family doesn't want to worry about it, but if the Ai family doesn't come forward to talk about some things, who will dare to point it out to the emperor?" Empress Dowager Yuan glanced at Yun Fenghuang in Didong and pointedly said, "Others That’s fine, just regarding the Melia mother-in-law, the Ai family would like to ask Concubine Xian Minghong, can I agree?”
"...the child obeys the mother's orders."
The Queen Mother stared at Yun Fenghuang: "I said that I did not conspire to murder Melia, so let me tell you, how did Mrs. Zheng tell me about Melia that night?"