Empress Dowager Guide

Chapter 92 Seeing is believing?

Ji Wenxuan was able to refuse the forced marriage of Princess Hengyang because of his wife back then. He was not a person who was so indifferent to family affection as he said, but his attitude was firm and he was not moved by Sheng Shaoqing's advice at all.

It's head-scratching!

"System, I want Ji Wenxuan's latest itinerary."

[The Office and the Jifu are two points and one line. 】

[New location added today: Imperial Study Room. 】

Sheng Shaoqing: "..."

"Then did he have any abnormal behavior, or did his subordinates have any changes?"

[May I ask what is the host's definition of abnormality? 】

"That's right, have you made any unusual moves?"

【If that's the case, his current behavior is very abnormal. 】

Sheng Shaoqing:? ? ?

【After he returned to the mansion, he changed his clothes and went to Princess Linyang's mansion. 】

Sheng Shaoqing was very puzzled by Ji Wenxuan's operation. Is this the difference between Xueshen and her?

Just like every time she was still calculating step by step carefully, Xueshen had already skipped all kinds of troublesome steps and got the answer.

Sheng Shaoqing pondered for a long time, but he didn't understand why Ji Wenxuan did one thing in front of her, and another when he turned around.

Saying that she doesn't care about Ji Baochuan's life, on the other hand, she ran to Princess Linyang's mansion to meet Ji Baochuan.

Forsythia came in again at this time, "Queen Mother, Madam Li, please see me."

Sheng Shaoqing woke up, "It's only been a few days, and you can't bear it anymore?"

Lianqiao didn't understand what the Queen Mother meant, so she just smiled awkwardly.

"Just say that Ai's family is exhausted, so I won't see you."

Lian Qiao continued, "Mrs. Li said, if you don't see me today, she won't be able to kneel until you see her."

"Why is there another stupid way to threaten me?"

Sheng Shaoqing admits that she is rebellious all over her body, she is a master who eats soft and not hard, and it's fine if others negotiate with her. The more people use this method of forcing her and kidnapping her morally, she will never There will be resistance at first.

"If she wants to kneel, let her kneel, prepare some good cushions for her, and then bring her the big cloak of the Ai family, and let her kneel for an hour or two before coming in."

Lian Qiao heard that Sheng Shaoqing meant that Madam Li was annoyed, so she followed the Queen Mother's orders.

Seeing Forsythia coming out, Mrs. Li was overjoyed, "Did the Empress Dowager let me in?"

Lian Qiao looked at the humble appearance of Madam Li who used to be arrogant and haughty, and felt a bit of sadness in her heart. If one day the Queen Mother also annoyed her, would she also refuse to see her like this?

Lian Qiao waved away the chaotic thoughts in her head, and secretly comforted herself that the Queen Mother would definitely not treat her like this, she shook her head at Mrs. Li, and waved at the female history behind her, telling them to go forward.

Mrs. Li looked puzzled as those female officials put thick cushions under her knees, and then put a very thick white fox cloak on her body.

"The Empress Dowager ordered, since Mrs. Li wants to kneel for a long time, the Ai family can't bear to disobey her wish, but for the consideration of Mrs. Li's wealth, I added these for you, so you can kneel here."

Lianqiao finished announcing the decree and turned around to leave, but Mrs. Li suddenly rushed over and tugged at the hem of her skirt, "Queen Mother, did the Queen Mother really say that?!"

Lian Qiao leaned over and gently opened Mrs. Li's hand, "The Empress Dowager ordered that the servant girl dare not lie."

Mrs. Li let go of her hand dejectedly, and as soon as she touched the ground, she was shocked by the icy touch between her fingers.

Lianqiao looked at Mrs. Li with some pity and said, "Madam, just think about it here."

Mrs. Li's close female Shi Siyun also helped Mrs. Li back to the cushion with distress. She had told the master that it was useless to beg the queen mother now, and the master insisted on coming. After sticking her face to someone else's cold ass, the queen mother might not take her madam seriously any more.

Mrs. Li silently knelt on the cushion, maybe this is good will be rewarded with good, and evil will be rewarded with evil, it's not that there is no reward, the time has not come, she is now paying the price for what she did in the past.

The first emperor really did not misunderstand the person, Feng Qing is indeed more demeanor of the mother of the country than her.

Mrs. Li smiled wryly, corrected her kneeling posture, and closed her eyes, hoping that time would pass faster this way.

Siyun was not seated by Mrs. Li, but her master was kneeling. She is a servant who can't stand and watch a joke. She also obediently accompanied Mrs. Li to kneel down, but she was not treated as well as Mrs. Li, so she could only sit on the cold ground. Shang anxiously waited for the Queen Mother to change her mind.

"Master, I want this servant to say that you shouldn't come today. You and the queen mother have already torn face together. Why rush over now and let your face be trampled. Behind you is the Li family." , What is behind the queen mother? As long as you stay close to the Li family, you can stand tall in the palace!"

Mrs. Li scolded, "What do you know!"

Siyun feels wronged: Of course I don’t understand, but I understand that my knees are cold and painful.

I don't know how long it took, when Mrs. Li seemed to be able to see her dead mother in front of her eyes, she finally heard a "squeak" sound from the inner hall to open the door, "Mrs. Li, the Queen Mother is here to invite you."

When Mrs. Li just got up, she suddenly felt dizzy. Even though she was wearing a big cloak, there were soft cushions under her knees, but she didn't know how long she knelt for. It was cold, and her legs below the waist were no longer her normal.

When she approached the inner hall with the support of Siyun, when she was about to kneel down to salute the queen mother, the queen mother said softly, "I just knelt for so long, now I don't need to kneel now, Lian Qiao, take a seat."

Mrs. Li was confused by Sheng Shaoqing's attitude, but she could only be arranged to sit under Sheng Shaoqing.

"Queen, concubine..."

"Do you know why Aijia made you kneel for so long?"

When Mrs. Li came in, she had already thought about the countermeasures, she lowered her head and said, "It's my concubine's fault. I should have come to visit the Queen Mother when I came out of Ye Ting Prison. Later, I was forgiven by the Queen Mother and allowed my concubine to move to Yilan Courtyard. I came to thank you, but my concubine was ill a few days ago, and I was afraid that I would give the Queen Mother a bad temper, so I..."

Seeing that she had completely misunderstood what he meant, Sheng Shaoqing said helplessly, "Wrong."

Mrs. Li was dumbfounded, she hadn't thought about other people's thoughts for a long time, not to mention her skills were rusty, not to mention, the style of the Empress Dowager was completely different from that of the late Emperor, so she didn't know if it would work or not.

"As a palace concubine, you are guilty of stealing property in the palace with outsiders. The first crime is; second, you ask to see me, and you kneel down to force Aijia to do it?!"

Mrs. Li said with a dazed expression, "Concubine...concubine...I was afraid that the queen mother would not summon the concubine, so I made this plan..."

Isn't this sentence a common code word in the palace?
If you don't see her, just kneel until you are willing to see her, and this person will understand that she means that she must see her, and express her determination to meet her? ? ?

Could it be that he was punished to kneel because of this sentence? ? ?
Then she is too bad, right? ? ?

"In the past, Aijia can let the past go, but in the future, it depends on your choice."

Mrs. Li knew that the Queen Mother was going to talk about something serious, so she said seriously, "This concubine is here today for this matter."

These days she tossed and turned, thinking about it, even if the Queen Mother is plotting against her now, she has no other choice but to get on the ship of the Queen Mother. After all, it only takes a few days to find out what the Li family is plotting, and the Queen Mother can't bear it. In addition to other unknown reasons, I'm afraid I also want to give myself a chance.

From the time she came out of Yeting Prison inexplicably, and then moved into Yilan Courtyard, her life seemed to be the same as before. Those nightmarish days before gradually disappeared in her mind like a dream, but she knew in her heart that she could no longer... I understand that the person who can make her everything as before today, and make her have nothing tomorrow is the Queen Mother.

After such a painful lesson, she finally understood that the days when she had the final say, had ceased to exist from the day the Queen Mother became the Queen Mother, and the late Emperor probably had already figured this out.

She seemed to finally understand that when the first emperor passed away, he looked at her with pity, just like looking at a cicada, waiting for her own destruction.

Mrs. Li has long been dissatisfied with her, and her younger brother kept putting pressure on her. As long as the queen mother let Mrs. Li know that her leaking the secrets ruined everything, Mrs. Li would destroy herself in an instant.

It's better to fight with your life. Together with the Queen Mother, there is still a chance of survival.

"The concubine asks the queen mother to back away from the left and right, the concubine has something secret to tell."

Sheng Shaoqing understood, and waved for everyone to retreat.

Only Siyun next to Mrs. Li hesitated to back down, saw his master's sharp eyes glanced at him, and hurried out behind Aning and Lianqiao.

Madam Li, who had been resting in the hall for a while, was no longer stiff in her knees. After everyone retreated, Madam Li immediately knelt down in front of Sheng Shaoqing.

"The concubine is guilty!"

Sheng Shaoqing didn't speak, just raised his hand to take the teacup on the table, gently pushed open the lid of the cup, blew on the froth, took a sip, then stared at Mrs. Li and said, "A sage has a saying, you can correct your mistakes if you know them. .”

Mrs. Li nodded slightly and continued, "Isn't the queen mother curious why the concubine stole?"

"Although my concubine is not from a famous family in Beijing, she is also from a famous family. How can she be so shameless?"

Sheng Shaoqing asked suspiciously, "Isn't it raising funds for the Li family to support the troops and go south to attack the scenery and restore the glory of the Li family?"

Mrs. Li nodded, "This is just one of them."

Now it was Sheng Shaoqing's turn to face each other dumbly. She thought that this reason was outrageous enough, could there be something even more outrageous?

"Since the Jin Dynasty, the Li family has been among the upper-class families. When they were all victorious, they were known as the "Li family's half-dynasty". relationship. Even now, many aristocratic families still have my Li family's blood."

"Later, the world was divided into three parts, and the royal family of the Jin Dynasty was forced to go south. The founder of Nanjing just jumped into the position of the Jin Dynasty. Since then, the Li family has been getting worse every day, and even split into many Branches, some people even changed their surnames and became descendants of other families in order to avoid disaster."

Speaking of this, Mrs. Li sneered, "Only my Li family in Jiangzhou still retains the name of Li family, but it has fallen from a first-class family to a low-level one today. But every generation of patriarchs restores their ancestors. The foundation is my responsibility, if Yu Gong can move mountains, I, Li Shi, may not be able to."

"It's a pity..." Mrs. Li paused, "They are becoming more and more obsessed. If the daughters in the family are useful, they will be used for marriage. the palace."

"I used to be in such an environment, although I felt that something was wrong, but I enjoyed it peacefully... It wasn't until I was in Ye Ting Prison a few days ago that I realized why the concubine was still in prison after all the family had spent so much planning. Live hard.”

"If you don't stand upright, how can you convince the public?"

"If you use this method to revitalize the family, the ancestors from a hundred years ago will probably come back alive from the ancestral grave."

Mrs. Li said that she was so old, and licked her chapped lips with dry mouth, Sheng Shaoqing frowned, seeing her miserable appearance, couldn't help feeling pity, and handed over the teacup in his hand.

Mrs. Li looked up in shock, but she didn't dare not to accept it. She took it tremblingly, took a symbolic sip, and quickly thanked her.

"Later, the Li clan itself was also divided into two factions. One group advocated taking advantage of Northern Liang to attack Nanjing, while the other advocated relying on Nanjing to slowly conquer Beiliang."

"Then your brother is in the first category?"

Mrs. Li nodded, "Although the concubine is a girl, she gradually understands the family's obsession, but..."

Sheng Shaoqing continued, "You can't resist your family threatening you with the kindness of nurturing, and using the position of future empress dowager to lure you, so you took a risky move and made a good future for yourself. Is what the Ai family said right?"

Mrs. Li smiled wryly, "The Queen Mother predicts things like a god, and the concubine is willing to bow down."

Sheng Shaoqing was silent for a long time. Mrs. Li may not have spoken for a long time. After a while, Mrs. Li sighed and said, "I finally understand why the late emperor chose you as your majesty's adoptive mother instead of someone else."

"The Empress Dowager has no family to rely on. Others see it as the Empress Dowager's shortcoming, but in the eyes of Your Majesty, this may be your greatest benefit. Only you will wholeheartedly fight to the death for Your Majesty."

Sheng Shaoqing also smiled wryly, the late emperor had exhausted all the tricks, and he didn't expect that there would be a system to send her, Sheng Shaoqing.

"The concubine came here this time, just to find a way out for herself."

"You are this?"

Mrs. Li bowed down again, "The queen mother let the concubine live, and let the concubine keep everything as before. Naturally, the concubine will repay the favor. The concubine has already told the queen mother everything she knows. The concubine wants to remind the queen mother that it is not just the Li family anymore. I am afraid that the children of many aristocratic families have already been involved in the matter of the family, and if it affects the whole body, if the Empress Dowager wants to deal with it, there will be many obstacles."

"Also, sometimes, what the queen mother hears and sees may not be true."

Mrs. Li's words awakened Sheng Shaoqing. Ji Wenxuan said to himself that he had severed ties with Ji Baochuan, and then turned around and quietly went to find his daughter. Among them, one of the two things he heard and saw must be a lie. of.

And from all the signs, it seems that the matter of severing the relationship is probably false.

Ji Wenxuan acted in front of her, if the system hadn't told her that the little old man slipped away to see his daughter, she would have believed that Ji Wenxuan had already given up on Ji Baochuan.

She believed it all, and so did the others...

Then, for Shen Gui, Ji Baochuan has no use value!
How can she handle Ji Wenxuan as an abandoned son of a family? !

Sheng Shaoqing wanted to understand this, stood up and said excitedly, "I understand!"

(End of this chapter)