After listening to the attendant's account of the current situation in the former harem for a while, Queen Mother Yuan thought quickly for a moment and said slowly: "The reason why Mrs. Qu dared to refuse the Ai family's offer to settle the matter was because she felt that she had nothing to lose. After all, how could she He said that she was also the emperor's biological mother. Even if the emperor didn't like her, he would always give her a good life with good food and clothing. But the Ai family was different. There was still affection between the Ai family and the emperor, so As long as she is generous enough, then the loss of the Ai family must be greater than hers. But... she has forgotten that her son is not only her son, but also... the emperor! "
"She wants to break the pot and bring her to the Ai family, but it's not that easy!"
The Queen Mother quietly ordered, "Have you found the person you were asked to find before?"
Zhanliu pursed his lips and said in a low voice: "I'm looking for it, but I can only look at it from a distance... If I get closer, there will be a flaw anyway. After all... that person has a charming look by nature. , I’m getting older, and those marks are really hard to get rid of.”
"It doesn't matter." Empress Dowager Yuan said coldly, "No matter how humble she is, she is the biological mother of the emperor's son. Back then, she was well fed, well-dressed, and served in the palace. Where can ordinary people see her? That's pretty much it. Anyway. , the only one who can confirm her identity has always been Huang Er! As long as Huang Er says that what is causing trouble now is fake, then it is fake!"
"But your Majesty will still raise her well afterwards?"
Empress Dowager Yuan said calmly: "It depends, what did she do in private, and who did she have a relationship with?"
A few days later, Qishan Palace received news that the woman causing a scene in Fuyang County was not the Queen Mother Qu herself, but was pretending to be an assassin who intended to kill the two Queen Mothers.
What happened is probably like this: The Imperial City Bureau found out early in the morning that there was a traitor who wanted to do harm to the two empress dowagers. They had failed to create a palace coup earlier, so they were thinking of killing the empress dowager. In order to avoid disturbing the snake, the two empress dowagers took the initiative to use their bodies as bait to lure the snake out of its hole.
Everyone in the imperial court, as well as the government of Fuyang County, pretended not to notice.
However, for the safety of the two empress dowagers, Empress Dowager Yuan and Empress Dowager Qu were secretly hidden, and only a substitute showed up.
In the end, the news leaked out somewhere. In order to test whether the Queen Mother in the mansion was real or fake, the assassins deliberately sent someone to pretend to be Queen Mother Qu and ruin the reputation of the two Queen Mothers.
It was so easy to force the two queen mothers to show up in person to refute the rumors.
This explanation is of course far-fetched, but it doesn't matter. Most people don't understand it very well, and they have never met the Queen Mother. They all said this together, and they just believed it.
The imperial court must have taken the overall situation into consideration, and Yun Fenghuang was not surprised at all by this result.
Neither the emperor nor the ministers had the intention to investigate the grudges and rights and wrongs between the two queen mothers. Anyway, it was proper to cut through the mess quickly and settle the matter as quickly as possible to calm the turmoil.
What she cares about is the opinions of the emperor and his ministers under the situation, and the information they have.
"Our people have seen it in Fuyang County. The so-called real Queen Mother of the Holy Mother who appeared later is fake, and she doesn't even resemble the Queen Mother of the Holy Mother." Chen Jing lowered his voice and softly reported, "That's true. The loving empress dowager is a true and loving empress dowager... The loving empress dowager also said that as a lineage of King Fuyang, she felt guilty for not being able to give birth to an heir for the late king Fuyang. Only then was she able to take on her own role under His Majesty. After that, she went back to Sangzi, so that she could stay with the late king's tomb nearby, and also see more of the descendants of King Fuyang. But now that something like this happened, she was really embarrassed to stay in the mansion any longer, so she wanted to pay tribute to the late king. Guard the tomb, and only bring maidservants and women to wait on it. After saying that he is going, he will ask someone to seal the door, and just let someone cut a hole in the wall to bring vegetables, rice, firewood, noodles, etc. From then on, unless he dies, he will never do anything again. Show up!”
"Nowadays, everyone in Fuyang County has great sympathy and admiration for the two queen mothers."
"The envoy sent by His Majesty did not dare to act independently, so he flew to report to the emperor. Now His Majesty seems to be in a dilemma..."
Yun Fenghuang frowned slightly.
Chunjia was naturally in a dilemma. He just had a rift with the two empress dowagers and was on guard. He didn't want them to continue to dictate things in the imperial capital and get involved in many things that he didn't want them to get involved with.
I also hope that I won’t get involved in the grudges between them from time to time.
It's not that the two queen mothers are thinking bad things.
In fact, as Queen Mother Qu had thought before, one of these two is an adoptive mother and the other is a biological mother. No matter how much Chunjia dislikes them or is tired of them, she still intends to provide them with a good retirement. .
Now that Empress Dowager Yuan is pretending to be a living dead from now on, how can he not feel sad
As long as it's just sad, that's all. The key is...
What if Chun Jia wants to bring the two queen mothers back
Because of Empress Dowager Yuan's move, the rhetoric on the scene was that she was afraid of being misunderstood again and affecting the reputation of the royal family.
Everyone knows that due to the relationship between the two queen mothers and Chunjia, the current Prince Fuyang family has no ability to restrain them.
On the other hand, everything depends on the faces of the two queen mothers.
Therefore, they continued to stay in the care of King Fuyang, and it was really hard to say whether they were innocent.
After all, King Fuyang didn't dare to take action even if he knew something.
But if they were brought back to the imperial capital, with the emperor Chunjia personally watching, who would dare to say that the emperor would condone his mother's affair with her foreign husband
"Does the Queen know about this?" The imperial concubine thought for a moment and asked Chen Jing.
Chen Jing whispered: "When I came here just now, I saw someone going to Woxia Tower."
"Then let's just wait." The imperial concubine muttered, "I think that after the Queen finds out, she will also want to talk to me."
The queen indeed thought so, and soon she sent someone over to invite the imperial concubine to come and talk.
When they arrived at Woxia Tower, they saw that Concubine De was at ease first.
After the ceremony, the queen gave her a seat, without any courtesy, and said straightforwardly: "You must have heard the news about Fuyang County. I may know more than you do, but I am afraid that your majesty has the power to welcome back the two queen mothers. plan."
"This..." Concubine De was startled and subconsciously looked at Yun Fenghuang.
Yun Fenghuang looked as usual and said softly: "Your Majesty is also in a dilemma this time. Although the two empress dowagers are so old and it is inconvenient to travel thousands of miles away, they cannot be called loving mother empress dowagers. They will really live like the living dead from now on. "
The Queen said: "We are all aware of His Majesty's pure filial piety. It's just... After the two Queen Mothers came back, I don't know if they will feel uncomfortable? As empresses, we must think more about Your Majesty. of."
Those two, not to mention Empress Dowager Qu, Empress Dowager Yuan were not good friends in the first place.
After such twists and turns, I'm afraid it will become even more difficult to deal with.
Although Chunjia is not the kind of foolish, loyal and filial master, and does not trust the two empress dowagers very much, but... As long as his son is not ruthless and the empress dowager is not ruthless, and she beats the concubines in the sky, the emperor can still do anything. Protecting everything
The queen was particularly worried because even Yun Fenghuang was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and had a record of trying to win over the Empress Dowager Yuan many times.
When the time comes for Queen Mother Yuan to cause trouble for the imperial concubine, I'm afraid it will be very difficult.
So looking at the Sixth House, who is the most suitable punching bag for the Queen Mother
There is no doubt that it is her!
Gu Zhen therefore lost his patience and tested each other with Yun Fenghuang. After swaying away, he said bluntly: "Since the two empress dowagers are old, in my opinion, it is better to ask them to spend their remaining years peacefully in Zuo, Fuyang County. Okay! After all, I left because I was not acclimated to the local environment, and now I come back, what if the phoenix body violates the agreement? What do you think, noble concubine? "
"Empress, if Your Majesty has made up his mind on this matter, even if the two Queen Mothers show pity to Your Majesty, he will still insist on coming to the imperial capital even if he is not acclimatized." Yun Fenghuang understood what the Queen meant, and she hinted that she would go and talk to Chunjia. explain.
In fact, from a fair point of view, there is nothing wrong with the Queen's move.
After all, the only thing that could suppress the emperor's filial piety towards Empress Dowager Yuan was his preference for the imperial concubine.
She is a queen, but she doesn't have such decency.
If she went to speak, the emperor would only blame her for not being filial to the Queen Mother.
The problem is that Yun Fenghuang is not happy.
Of course, the imperial concubine did not want to see the two Queen Mothers, especially the Queen Mother Yuan, making a comeback. But now that the Queen Mother Yuan did not come towards her, she went to tell Chunjia about it. The entire harem, especially the Queen, would benefit. His love for her has been shaken, and he must feel that she is unfilial, ignorant, and inconsiderate to him.
Then isn't she unjustly accused
The queen said slowly: "Even so, but... don't be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the worst."
She had not dealt with Yun Fenghuang once or twice. She didn't hesitate at this moment and directly gave the conditions, that is, she would grant Xie Meng and other three sisters the title of county head.
Yun Fenghuang was quite disdainful of this, because the title of county lord was a bit useless in her opinion.
Apart from making the three girls live more comfortably after leaving the cabinet, it has no meaning.
Even after she had coaxed Chunjia to favor her more and more for two years, she could win it for herself, so why let the queen do this favor
The two parties bargained for a long time but failed to reach any results. In the end, it was Concubine De who smoothed things over, saying that it would be of no benefit to anyone if the two queen mothers came back to the imperial capital, so why not take a step back
"Actually, it's useless to talk to Your Majesty directly about this matter." Yun Fenghuang heard this, thought for a moment, and said, "After all, Your Majesty is wise. Outsiders don't know about the discord between us and the two Queen Mothers, so what's in Your Majesty's heart?" Don’t know? Now let’s go and tell His Majesty our approval and objection, I’m afraid His Majesty will think too much. It’s better to pretend not to know, ignore it, and let Your Majesty make the decision.”
"But if this is the case, those two will not ignore it!" The queen frowned and said, "Are you really that loving mother, the Queen Mother, so determined and selfless? If you really think about the late king's words, why do you go back to Fuyang County and do all these days? You are so powerful that you haven’t even visited the tomb of the late king?”
Yun Fenghuang said calmly: "We know all this well, and Your Majesty is not confused. The key is who told the Queen Mother to be so smart and do it neatly, so that Your Majesty didn't get caught? In this way, Your Majesty is not just thinking about feeling sorry for the two. Is she the Queen Mother?"
In other words, if the emperor gets a hold of them, not only will the relationship between mother and son be broken instantly, but the emperor will be awakened in a sudden embarrassment.
By then, if nothing else, the emperor would definitely not consider bringing them back to cause trouble.
Seeing that the queen was deep in thought, Yun Fenghuang continued, "I am still in mourning, and my brothers have all returned to the north. I don't know much about the situation in Fuyang County, but I feel that with the behavior of the empress dowager, who is a loving mother, I’m afraid I won’t ignore the whole matter and ignore it.”
Therefore, if you want to find trouble and expose them, you can only count on noble ladies like you.
After a while, the imperial concubine and her party slowly left Woxia Tower.
Returning to Lanzhou Yeyu Pavilion, Qing Ren asked with some anxiety: "My Lady, what if the Queen shrinks back and does not dare to take the initiative to interfere in the affairs between the two Queen Mothers?"
"What does that have to do with it?" Yun Fenghuang said calmly, "She can't make up her mind to let the Gu family intervene in Fuyang County's affairs, so Queen Mother Qu can't take the initiative to find her?"
As long as Queen Mother Qu's people take the initiative to find the Queen, and then expose it to Queen Mother Yuan...
Even if Yun Fenghuang wanted to suppress this episode, Queen Mother Yuan would not agree!
By the time…
But before her plan was completed, she received news from Xie Wuzheng!