Fu Chun pulled up the hood on the cloak when he got out of this cell.
Someone came to lure her out, and she exited the back door of Dali Temple, and she hurried back to the palace in a carriage.
After returning to the palace, Empress Chen didn't say anything, but locked herself in the bedroom. Fu Chun trembled all night, and the next day news came to the palace, saying that Mrs. Cheng Enhou had died.
The entire Kunning Palace was dead silent, especially the sleeping hall, no one dared to approach, Fu Chun was afraid of accidents, so he simply sent away all the maids who were serving, and stayed in the sleeping hall to wait on him.
I don't know how long it has passed. During this period, Fu Chun has been tentatively trying to get in outside the curtain, but he hesitates. It had been a whole day since there was any movement inside, and the fear in her heart reached its peak, so she bravely went in.
The light inside was dim, so Fu Chun went to light a palace lantern, and when she turned around, she saw a figure sitting cross-legged on the bed, which startled her, only to realize that the figure was Empress Chen.
"Ma'am..." she lowered her voice.
The figure moved, and a hoarse voice came out: "Fuchun?"
Seeing that the empress was finally willing to speak, Fu Chun also heaved a sigh of relief, stepped forward and said, "Empress, you haven't eaten all day, this servant is going to prepare some meals, you can eat as much as you want."
"Empress?" The person behind the tent sneered at himself, and said, "I don't know how long this empress can last."
Fu Chun's face darkened, and he persuaded: "Your Majesty, don't think too much. Since Your Majesty didn't say anything else, he naturally didn't have that kind of thought. His Majesty did this to avoid affecting His Highness the First Prince. As long as His Majesty still has this This kind of thought, you must be fine, ma'am."
"But you also said that as long as His Majesty still has this idea, maybe one day this idea will disappear."
"No, our Highness is so good, how could His Majesty be willing to do so?"
"Then according to this, I, as a mother, will have to point at Duo'er in the future. People always value their children according to their mothers, and I, a mother who does not live up to expectations, will hold my son back."
"Your Majesty, don't think too much, take care of your body..."
"Did she have anything to say to me at the end?" the voice interrupted suddenly.
Fu Chun was suffocated, and after a while, he said in a low voice: "The madam didn't say anything, she just hoped that the empress will be well, and she also hoped that the empress will be prosperous forever, and her wish will come true."
She omitted what the second lady said before, because it was obvious that the second lady meant sarcasm and self-deprecation, but how could she say such words.
The person behind the tent didn't speak. Fu Chun only saw that under the projection of the light, the black shadow trembled slightly until the tremor became bigger and bigger. He bent down and covered his face with his hands.
She was also very uncomfortable in her heart, turned her face away and wiped the corners of her eyes.
"I'm sorry for my mother, she worked so hard for me, but in the end I single-handedly sent her to a dead end..."
"Ma'am."
Suddenly there was a sound beside the door, it was the sound of the crystal curtains colliding with each other. Fu Chun turned his head and saw Wan Shu and Zong Duo standing there.
The two looked shocked.
The empress dowager felt sorry for the innocence of the two children, and after telling them the matter, she ordered someone to send them back to the palace, so that the mother and son could discuss the sacrifice.
Death is the most important thing, no matter what, the final filial piety should also be shown.
So Wanshu and Zong Duo went back to the Forbidden City. They never expected that after entering the Kunning Palace, the maids and eunuchs were very taboo, and there was no one walking around outside.
Zong Duo's hand was very painful from his sister's pinching, he was still dazed, and Wan Shu had already rushed to the bed.
"Did the queen mother make grandma commit suicide?"
Wanshu is older than Zong Duo, she remembers things earlier, the second wife often visits the queen in the palace, and every time it is necessary to bring her some gadgets outside the palace, and even after Wanshu grows up, the second wife will inevitably prepare some things with her. Clothes and jewelry, it is said that the palace belongs to the palace, and the grandma belongs to the grandma.
Although as Wanshu grew up, she was not as close to the second wife as before, but after all, the childhood feelings were still there, so Wanshu always called the second wife grandma in private. Knowing that her grandfather's... death was related to her grandma, Wanshu was heartbroken. Now that her grandma is gone, she thought it was a matter between her grandpa and grandma. The queen mother told her so, but she never knew I didn't expect there was an inside story in it.
"Why do you want grandma to die? Why!" Wan Shu broke down. No matter how much she usually thought about it, she was only thirteen years old and couldn't accept it at all.
Grandma is the mother-in-law of the queen mother, and the daughter asked the mother-in-law to die
Perhaps it was her daughter's expression and questioning that also stimulated Empress Chen. She lifted the curtain, revealing a pale and haggard face.
"Why? Come on, let me tell you why!"
After that, Empress Chen told the whole story without reservation.
Maybe out of venting her anger, or because she had been suppressed for a long time, she said everything she could and couldn't say.
"What do you think your grandma and I are for?" Empress Chen looked at her children with red eyes, and said word by word: "For what? Is it for ourselves?"
Wan Shu subconsciously looked at her younger brother. Zong Duo was already in shock, and was stunned for a moment, and then a flash of pain flashed in his eyes.
"Your father dotes on your concubine and destroys your wife. The queen mother knows that she can do nothing, so she can only try to win more for you. Wanshu, you are the princess from the direct line, and Duo'er is the eldest son from the direct line. You should have received the honor you deserve, but what happened?" Things are not going well, your grandfather only has the Chen family in his heart, only his beloved concubine who died early wanted to recognize Concubine Su, and your grandma was forced to do such a thing.
"But I never expected that it would be exposed in the end. In order to protect you, your grandma swallowed all the bitterness by herself and carried everything alone. The queen mother is also heartbroken, but what should I do? If things really continue to evolve , everything will be exposed in front of people, how should the empress mother and you guys deal with each other, how should you meet people, have you thought about it?"
No, but starting to think about it now.
In order to hide her crimes and ask for the crown prince for Zong Duo, Mrs. Cheng Enhou did not hesitate to kill her husband. This is a sensational thing at any time. The royal family has always paid attention to face and reputation, so it must be dealt with severely. Even if Wan Shu and Zong Duo have the status of royal children, they are destined to disappear in the future.
They can only live in the shadows and in the corner all their lives, so that people will not bring up old things because of seeing them, and once again discredit the royal family.
Wan Shu began to cry, not knowing what she was crying for, Empress Chen was also crying, and the mother and daughter hugged each other and cried.
But Zong Duo didn't cry, but his face was extremely pale, as white as paper.
His lips were bitten so tightly that blood oozes out quickly.
"So you need to know that from now on, you will be the only queen mother left, and you will only have the queen mother left. Wanshu, you have to be a good sister and please your father and emperor more. And Duoer, you have to study hard and keep Compared with Zong Yue...
"There is no rush, we are not in a hurry, one year is not enough, five years is not enough, there are still ten years... We can take it slowly... We have shouldered so much and sacrificed so much, Duo'er, you will definitely be better than Zong in the future Yue is good, it doesn't matter if the queen mother falls out of favor, even if the queen mother is imprisoned in this Kunning Palace for the rest of her life, it doesn't matter, as long as you are doing well, you will get back what you lost one day... "
Since the incident happened, it has been spreading rumors.
It ended with the grievances between husband and wife, some people believed it, and some people didn't believe it, but the truth is, after all, it's just a glimpse of the leopard, which can only add a lot of speculation.
Just like what Empress Dowager Fu said, the Fu family knew about it, and naturally there were other people who knew about it. So about Chen Cai staying in the Su family before going to Dali Temple, this matter is only known to a few families.
After the result was given from Dali Temple, no one mentioned this matter again. In addition to causing a lot of speculation, at the same time, the fear of Concubine Su Gui was deepened.
His Majesty suppressed this kind of thing because of Concubine Su, and it was the Zhonggong family who suffered in the end, and it was clear which was more serious.
When the weather became colder, people who went to Xiyuan to escape the heat moved back to the Forbidden City again.
It was probably because too many things happened this summer, so the time to move back to the palace this year was later than before. Not long after moving back, the weather really cooled down.
Days passed unhurriedly... Empress Chen of Kunning Palace had been ill all the time, and there was no one to take care of the palace affairs. Zong Cong talked to Pan Er several times before she took over.
It seems that there is nothing wrong with it, the empress just needs to sit there high and move her mouth, but in fact it seems to be not the case.
She had experienced these pans in her previous life, and she was caught in a busy schedule. Fortunately, she had experience in handling palace affairs, so she got started very quickly. But her free time was taken up, which made her lament once again that the higher the occupation, the more things one has to bear.
She has a lot of sighs just to take care of the palace affairs, one can imagine what kind of heavy responsibility Zong Cong has to carry the whole country.
That's why she is very virtuous when she is free recently, and she runs frequently to the Qianqing Palace. Every time she has to bring some soup or tonics, it's enough once or twice. This is where the sun comes out.
It's not that Pan'er is not virtuous at ordinary times, it's just that she seldom engages in these false tricks. The soup and supplements she gave away were leftovers when she first entered the palace. The old wife means that this kind of nonsense will naturally not be done.
Zong Cong spoke his mind while scooping up the soup to drink.
Pan'er rolled his eyes at him: "It's not that I feel sorry for you for working so hard every day, and want to make up for you. Since you don't like it, then I won't give it away tomorrow."
It's all explained, it means that she has already planned to give it back tomorrow, Zong Cong naturally doesn't know what to do, so he hurriedly explained that he is still waiting for her to bring soup to drink tomorrow.
Su Hai had long said that he would go back to Beijing, but the border affairs were so complicated that he didn't come back until the twelfth lunar month.
The two brothers and sisters met in a hurry, and they didn't have much to say. It was impossible for Su Hai to talk to his sister about the battlefield. They only talked about the fact that Chen Cai lived in Su's house before. On the other hand, Zong Qian was very happy that his uncle was back, and had been pestering Pan'er to go to Yongshunbo's mansion for several days, but Pan'er had no choice but to allow him.
It's another New Year's Eve.
So many things happened in the three years of Jianping, but they didn't seem to have any impact on the palace, including this year's grand court meeting, including the first day of the first day of the lunar new year, when the married woman entered the palace to worship.
Only this year the queen was ill and did not show up. Originally it was supposed to be the imperial concubine who replaced her, but was rejected by Pan'er, so she simply omitted this and went to Ningshou Palace to pay homage to the queen mother.
It wasn't until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month that the flavor of the New Year's Eve faded, and Su Hai returned to the border after the fifteenth day, and this time he was promoted to deputy commander.
At his age, his progress was extremely fast, but in terms of his merits, it was not too fast.
But people often only see what they want to see, so combined with the fact that they have a sister of the imperial concubine, let alone the deputy chief soldier, it is also possible to be the chief soldier in time.
Spring in the Forbidden City has always come faster than other places in the capital. The evergreen trees in the imperial garden are still lush, and the flowers have stretched out their new branches, waiting for the moment to reveal their fragrance.
The past few days Concubine Xu Xian has been running to Jingren Palace quite frequently, all because of the marriage of Eldest Princess Wanxian.
After the new year Wanxian will be fifteen, and she will soon be Jiji's eldest daughter. Concubine Xu Xian wants to take advantage of the palace's plan to do Jiji's affairs for Wanxian, and put the matter of choosing a son-in-law on the agenda.
Now that the empress stays in Kunning Palace and doesn't care about anything, she naturally wants to find the imperial concubine, and that's why this Concubine Xu Xian, who usually only sweeps the snow in front of the door, is so considerate recently.
After all, it was a serious matter, and it was not easy for Pan Er to refuse, she mentioned this matter in front of Zong Cong, Zong Cong didn't say anything, he just said what to do.
Then do it.