When the Queen Mother doubted the Queen Mother Yuan, the Queen Mother Yuan also doubted her: "Prince Regent? The Ai family thinks it is impossible! How long has Liu Hong been with Concubine Xian? When is it not easy to take action? Why did he take action at this time? ? It’s not like Concubine Xian just had a grudge against the Prince Regent!"
"On the contrary, Concubine Xian had just visited Qingci Palace before the accident. Could it be the work of the Empress Dowager?"
"Otherwise, why would the regent have prepared so much today and let my son's hard work go to waste?"
Zhanliu said: "Concubine Xian has been unconscious for a few days after being poisoned. Could it be that the regent was worried that His Majesty would find out the truth, so he prepared a backup plan in advance?"
She was not speaking for the Empress Dowager, but said, "If the Empress Dowager has the ability to poison people without anyone noticing, then the virtuous concubines are not the only ones who go to Qingci Palace to pay their respects these days."
The emperor has also been there. If the empress dowager had a choice, how could she leave the emperor alone and harm the concubine
"... Maybe." Empress Dowager Yuan frowned and sighed, "This palace is still not clean after all! But I hope that my son will calm down the former dynasty soon and clean up the harem... Otherwise, the Ai family will I can’t let go of this heart no matter what!”
She is just such a son.
What would she do if there was something wrong with her
Chunjia did not come to Chunhuang Palace that day, and only sent a royal attendant to run errands to express condolences. After he left Qingci Palace, he went to Xuanqing Palace. Empress Dowager Yuan was in a very complicated mood, but there was nothing between mother and son. The grudge hadn't been resolved yet, and she didn't want to add pressure to Chunjia at this time, so she endured it and told the waiter in a pleasant manner that everything was fine and that the emperor should concentrate on the government and the poisoning of the concubine, and there was no need to worry about her.
She takes care of herself.
The waiter went back and reported to Chunjia. Yan Yin, who had privately accepted the benefit of Zhanliu, took the opportunity to say something nice to Queen Mother Yuan. She probably said that Queen Mother Yuan is your majesty's biological mother. Well, she is closer than her biological mother.
Chunjia's expression was calm: "The Queen Mother has always felt sorry for me."
Then I immersed myself in reviewing the memorial.
This day was certainly not a smooth one for the emperor. The alliance between the Queen Mother and the Regent was definitely not a good thing for him. It could even be said to be a big trouble.
Chunjia was confident enough to deal with the simple regent, but it would only take a long time.
It would be easier to deal with the simple Empress Dowager. Without the Ji family, this person has nothing except her noble status and seniority. It can be said that life and death, honor and disgrace all depend on Chunjia's thoughts.
But now that they have colluded, the regent is protected by a deviant elder, who also carries the legacy of the Ji family; the empress dowager is not a helpless person who can kill Chunjia whenever he wants and put him under house arrest. As an old woman, whenever she was dissatisfied, the regent could make a fuss in court by questioning Chunjia's lack of filial piety towards his grandmother.
The most terrible thing is that there has always been a rumor in the palace that before Emperor Xiaozong died, he wanted to create an emperor's younger brother.
The imperial edict was drafted, but it was rejected by the Ji family. Only then did Chunjia ascend the throne.
I also knew that the Empress Dowager must have contributed to suppressing such an imperial edict at that time.
Now that she was on the side of the regent to deal with Chunjia, she had no choice but to admit this imperial edict.
When the time comes, how will Chunjia deal with herself
In short, the emperor will definitely not have an easy time in the coming days.
But when night fell, there was good news: Concubine Xian woke up.
Although she fell asleep again shortly after waking up, and did not even have time to say a complete sentence, the two imperial doctors who had lost a lot of weight in just a few days were still relieved: After waking up like this, if there is no accident, this empress' His life was saved.
The next step is to slowly remove the poison and slowly nurse her back to health.
When Chunjia received the news and rushed over, Concubine Xian had already fallen asleep again. He stood by the couch for a moment and then ordered Xie Meng and Xie Kuo to be on standby outside the bedroom at any time from tomorrow: "If Concubine Xian has the energy to speak after she wakes up, Let them go in and stay with her. Just be careful not to let them tire the Concubine Xian."
Qingdu and other attendants responded cautiously. Qingdu turned around and told Zhu E and the others to let Xie Kuo come forward as much as possible, because although Xie Kuo was young, he was much more measured than Xie Meng, which made people worry less.
"But Miss Meng may be unhappy." Zhu E agreed, then reminded her, "I'm afraid there will be trouble."
"It's not up to her." Qingdu frowned slightly and said, "The most important thing now is the empress. Once the empress... who among us can do better? If Miss Meng is still ignorant, please ask her to go back to the house! You should You know the seriousness! If you are worried and blame the queen or madam later, I will take full responsibility for it!"
In fact, if it was normal times, even if they knew that Xie Kuo was more sensible and well-behaved than Xie Meng, they would still favor Xie Meng.
After all, they all came from Jiang's side, why don't they take extra care of Jiang's granddaughter
Xie Kuo is in the next room after all.
But the situation is different now. If it weren't for Chunjia's order, they wouldn't want the two children to disturb Yun Fenghuang at all.
But this is the emperor's wish after all, so he can only accept it.
Around noon the next day, when Chunjia was still in the middle of the court meeting, Yun Fenghuang woke up again. This time she was in much better spirits than yesterday. She felt hungry after waking up, ate some porridge, and asked a few questions about her current situation. , Zuo Zuo was afraid that she would worry, so he didn’t dare to tell everything. He only said that the emperor was still investigating the murderer, and had been stationed at Xuanqing Palace for several days because of her. He only went to the court to listen to the matter in the past two days, and would come back soon to continue accompanying her. Looking at her... Finally, Xie Meng and Xie Kuo came forward to pay their respects to their aunt.
Yun Fenghuang smiled and said a few words to them, and then fell asleep unbearably.
In the court meeting that day, because Princess Minghui had not been brought back from the palace, the matter of Concubine Xian's poisoning was not seriously discussed, and it was not too intense.
But everyone felt that this was just a brief calm before the storm.
The long-standing conflict between the royal uncle and nephew has reached the edge of exploding.
Due to the sudden intervention of the Empress Dowager, the originally clear outcome became unclear again... Chunjia rarely felt the pressure, so she did not go to Xuanqing Palace immediately after the end of the court, but stayed in Taichu Palace to handle some government affairs, and then After summoning a number of important ministers, it was already time to have lunch when we led the Huanhua Hall in this way.
He was a little regretful when he learned that Concubine Xian had just fallen asleep a quarter of an hour ago, but when he learned that Yun Fenghuang was much better than yesterday, he breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile on his face, and ordered rewards for the imperial doctor and the Huanhua Palace. .
Even Xie Meng and Xie Kuo got something.
Everyone inside and outside the Xuanqing Palace was filled with joy. Although Chunjia only admired the main palace and ignored the concubines in the side palaces, they were equally happy.
Because the main one survived, most of the concubines should be fine.
Especially people like Yi Xingen, Qu Hongzhuan and Zhao who are usually close to Yun Fenghuang.
If Yun Fenghuang had gone like this this time, even if they were not all sent down to be buried with the chief, they would not have such a good day to enjoy the shade under the big tree.
Yes, although there is no lack of fear of Yun Fenghuang, the concubines of Xuanqing Palace have to admit that this position actually gives them a sense of security.
This time, because of her uncertain life and death, several concubines even privately promised to become vegetarians for the rest of their lives to pray for her.
He was afraid that after her death, he would lose his backer and the palace would be destroyed.
Different from the joyful atmosphere of Xuanqing Palace, the apse of Hansu Palace is like falling into an ice cellar.
Ruifei Ouyang Fulu, Mrs. Manya Meng Youyi, Zhaoyi Yinxuan and the newly demoted Jie Yuluo Hanyi gathered together.
"How is this possible?!" Mrs. Manya, Meng Youyi, was the least dignified and restless of the four, so she was the first to shout, "We did place some people in the Xuanqing Palace, but they were just to investigate. The insignificant news about me is all in the side hall, where you can’t even touch the corner of Concubine Xian’s clothes, let alone the tea she drank was poisoned?!”
"If you can really do this, why wait until now?!"
"I killed her as early as when I entered the palace!"
"Sister Meng, be careful what you say!" Concubine Rui frowned and reminded in a low voice, "If these words get out, it will be more and more confirmed that we are guilty of murdering Concubine Xian!"
Meng Youyi's chest rose and fell violently, obviously filled with resentment: "Those who are clean will be clean by themselves..."
"That's useless." Luo Hanyi interrupted her, "Ji's is an example."
The four of them were silent for a while.
"Fortunately, Your Majesty still favors us." Zhaoyi Yinxuan said with a strong smile, "Isn't this... handing all the evidence to the elders of our family and letting them handle it themselves? Isn't this... isn't it like it never happened?"
Then they were looked at by the other three people as if they were fools: "If Your Majesty really wants to pretend that nothing happened, as for handing over the evidence to our father and brother? It's obvious that he just doesn't want to make a big fuss!"
"... How do I not know? I just want to cheer you up by looking at your lifeless appearance." Yin Xiang was a little embarrassed, coughed dryly, and muttered, "I know that Your Majesty is doing this intentionally. But what can be done? We have indeed bought spies for Xuanqing Palace and inquired about information. If nothing happens to Concubine Xian or we are not found out, wouldn’t we be reported to the imperial court by Gu?!"
"Your Majesty did not make it public, but privately returned the evidence to my four families for destruction. How can I say it is grace and trust... How can this not be true?"
This time the other three did not look down upon her, but sighed in unison.
Even if they couldn't defeat the Concubine Xian, they still came from the same family, and they still had the basic understanding that if Chunjia came like this, it would be impossible for the four of them, or the four of their families, to have a successor.
Even though they only learned from home two days ago that Chunjia and her son had no intention of fulfilling their promise, they still felt disappointed.
After all, he had been aiming at this goal since before entering the palace.
The results of it
It's almost the last step, and the success has fallen short.
"Tell me, who is telling the truth?" After a moment of silence, Meng Youyi punched the table unwillingly and asked in a deep voice, "Did Concubine Xian instigate Your Majesty to cut off our thoughts of succession, or was it all a matter of care? Clan’s conspiracy?”
No wonder she was at a loss, the matter was like this: in the past two days, not long before Concubine Xian's accident, the four families got the news privately, that Chunjia mother and son actually did not intend to give them the successor position at all, but wanted to use it. This prince went to win over Uncle Zhaowu and poach the regent.
This idea was that Concubine Xian specifically persuaded Chunjia to persuade the loving empress dowager in order to prevent a favored concubine from a noble family from overpowering her.
The source of the news is a remnant of the Ji family, and it has been repeatedly confirmed by four families and is considered credible.
They must have hated Concubine Xian at the time, but as a family, the first thing to bear the brunt was not revenge, but consideration of the interests of the family: Should they follow the emperor's wishes and voluntarily give up their successorship in exchange for other benefits? Or try to force the mother and son to keep their promise
As a result, something happened to Concubine Xian before they could think about it.
The four families also communicated with each other privately about this, asking each other who made it
Then they discovered that this matter was not done by any family... They discussed it and thought that Queen Mother Yuan was more suspicious...
Because the female relatives in the family unanimously believed that if this idea really came from Concubine Xian and persuaded the emperor, then from the perspective of Empress Dowager Yuan, even if she would adopt it, Concubine Xian must die!
Just two days ago, the four families were still thinking about whether they should get involved and connect Concubine Xian's poisoning with Gu Zhen, thus cutting off Gu Zhen's possibility of becoming a queen.
As a result, just now, the emperor summoned the heads of the four families one by one and threw a box of vouchers to them, saying that it was secretly sent by Uncle Zhaowu's brother. He felt that although the evidence was irrefutable, the four families were not like this. He asked them to take it back and deal with it themselves. They should also be careful when doing things in the future, so as not to be deceived without knowing it!
The four families carried the box back inexplicably. When they went back and looked at it, they were shocked: it contained all the corruption and misdeeds of the four families. After the fourth concubine entered the palace, she arranged a series of spies to spy on the emperor and intrigues, etc. evidence!
… Although some of it is far-fetched, at least half of it is true.
What else can be said
If Chunjia punished them, they could still complain, defend, appeal, and bite back. Chunjia directly gave them the box. He said in and out that I don’t want to be held accountable. I don’t care about you. I trust and rely on you very much. I even will Protect you - under this situation, if they still go to the emperor to complain, what does that mean
Don't know good from evil.
They can only hate and target Gu.
This was what the previous dynasty had to do. As for the palace, they also hurriedly handed a message in, asking their daughter to take it easy from now on and not to reach out to other concubines, especially the virtuous concubine!
At the same time, he told them that there was no hope for the future.
After all, Chunjia clearly revealed to the four families that the impeachment memorial and a box of incriminating evidence were handed over by Gu.
If the Gu family can do it once, they can do it a second time. The emperor is willing to protect them, but will the Gu family do it
If I could, there wouldn't be that box of stuff.
Therefore, the more decent thing to do next is for the four families to take the initiative to propose to the emperor privately and give up the promise of succession.
Let the emperor appoint Gu Zhen as his successor.
Meng Youyi was suspicious: "Perhaps this is His Majesty's purpose. Concubine Xian and the Gu family just have a reputation."
Chunjia had pretended and stood up again and again, and even Meng Youyi found it hard not to doubt that he could do such a thing.
"...What did your family tell you?" Luo Hanyi and Ouyang Fulu looked at each other and looked at her with pity, "What is the truth about this kind of thing? Why is it so important? In short, all four of our families will lose in this round. Isn’t it?"
Concubines like them who rely solely on their family have lost, so what can they do
The former Queen Ji Lingzi, after the overthrow of the Ji family, had no choice but to leave the palace and go to Shanyuan Temple to wait for death, right
Meng Youyi bit her lip and hummed: "People cannot stand without faith. Your Majesty goes back on his words like this... I don't believe there will be no future troubles!"