The emperor's scheming: alluring the world

Chapter 139 Married to a broken shoe

Upon receiving the hint from Empress Wu's eyes, Lady Su nodded knowingly, and asked the little palace maid to serve tea, while she left the main hall and went to prepare snacks in person.

Miss Su went back not long after she left, and when she came back, she had an extra food box in her hand. She smiled bitterly and said to the queen, "Your Majesty, just now the imperial dining room brought freshly baked snacks, and said that the weather is getting colder, so your Majesty should eat more." Some warming food, so goat's milk is added to these snacks." While speaking, Miss Su took out the snacks from the food box, and when the steaming snacks came out, a smell of goat's milk filled the hall spread.

Empress Wu glanced at the dim sum and said with a smile on her face, "The taste is very fragrant, but I don't know if there is any smell in the mouth."

While testing the poison with silver chopsticks, Miss Su replied to Empress Wu's words: "The imperial dining room knows that the empress does not like the smell of mutton, so these dim sums have been specially improved, and there will never be a slight smell of mutton, and the empress can eat it with confidence."

When Empress Wu heard this, she subconsciously looked at Miss Zheng, only to see that Miss Zheng frowned slightly, as if trying to hold back something.

Seeing this, Wu Haolong, who was at the side, knew that the matter could not be kept secret. In order to facilitate his speech, he said to Empress Wu: "Auntie, this is the first time Yan Niang has entered the palace, and she hasn't visited the Imperial Garden yet. I wonder if I can trouble Miss Su to help Yan?" Mother leads the way and takes her to the imperial garden."

What Empress Wu was waiting for was Wu Haolong's words, so she said to Mrs. Su: "Then you can accompany Mrs. Wu to the Imperial Garden!"

Lady Su understood, put down the silver chopsticks in her hand, turned around and walked to Zheng Yanniang's side, saluted and said, "Young Madam, I will accompany you to the Imperial Garden."

Zheng Yanniang actually didn't dare to let Wu Haolong and the Queen be alone, she was afraid that Wu Haolong would tell Queen Wu about the fraudulent marriage, but the strong smell of goat's milk in the palace made her extremely uncomfortable, she was afraid that if she stayed any longer, she would be in Wu Haolong's house. The queen lost her composure in front of her, and finally hesitated again and again. She went to the imperial garden with Miss Su.

As soon as Zheng Yanniang left, Empress Wu said to Wang Gonggong: "Let them all retreat, and they are not allowed to come near without the order of my palace."

Eunuch Wang understood, and dismissed all the maids and servants in the palace, while he himself stood guard outside the main hall to prevent anyone from eavesdropping.

"What's going on, you'd better tell me clearly." Empress Wu said eagerly when there were no more people waiting in the hall.

As soon as Empress Wu finished speaking, Wu Haolong knelt down and said, "Auntie, this time my nephew is really innocent. Before we got married, my nephew didn't know that Zheng Yanniang was just Zheng Shihong's adopted daughter."

Empress Wu was startled when she heard the words, and she asked in disbelief: "How could such a thing happen? As far as I know, Zheng Shihong only has one son and one daughter under his knees. When will he have another adopted daughter?"

Hearing this, Wu Haolong showed a complicated expression and said: "This is an old thing more than ten years ago. It's not surprising that my aunt didn't know. Zheng Yanniang was the posthumous son of Zheng Shihong's friend. Back then, Zheng Yanniang's mother had difficulty giving birth to her and died of blood loss. It happened that Zheng Shihong's wife gave birth to a daughter. Zheng Shihong felt sorry for her helplessness, so he said that his wife gave birth to twin daughters and raised Zheng Yanniang as his own daughter. Later, Zheng Shihong's biological daughter died at the age of one. Zheng Yanniang survived an emergency, Zheng Shihong lost his beloved daughter, and the servants in the manor dared not mention the dead lady again. After that, everyone only knew that there was only one lady in the Zheng Mansion, and that was Zheng Yanniang. "

Empress Wu didn't show much shock when she heard the words, but she still had other doubts in her heart: "Even if she is an adopted daughter, it's true that Zheng Shihong loves her very much. You can see from Zheng Yanniang's dowry Zheng Shihong treats Zheng Yanniang as her own daughter, so what are you hiding from me?"

Wu Haolong knew that he couldn't hide anything from this shrewd aunt of the queen, so he simply closed his eyes and said angrily: "My nephew married a broken shoe, so Zheng Yanniang is not only not a virgin, but also pregnant for three months." pregnant, and the father of the evil son is Zheng Shihong's son, Zheng Yunjie."

Empress Wu was stunned when she heard this. She thought she had lived most of her life, and she had never seen any kind of strange things, but the things about the Zheng family were the rarest of the rare, such as brother-sister incest, unmarried pregnancy, cheating, etc. Marriage, Zheng's family was brave enough to cheat the marriage to her Wu family's head.

"Pa..." After a long time, Empress Wu slapped the table in a rage, and then she pointed at Wu Haolong and cursed angrily: "Useless things, you have lost all the face of the Wu family. It's a lowly merchant who gave you a broken shoe daughter, but you accepted it without saying a word, don't you think you still want to recognize this evil son as your son!"

Originally married to a broken shoe, Wu Haolong already felt aggrieved enough, but now that he was reprimanded by Empress Wu, he felt even more humiliated, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he said angrily: "I only swallowed it because I was concerned about the Wu family's face. Such a shameful humiliation. Don't I feel aggrieved in my heart? I am more aggrieved than anyone else. We are a noble family and a century-old family, but the recent events have hollowed out the Wu family. The current Wu family There is only a bright shell left, which cannot bear any blow, and the foreign debts owed by my father, we are unable to repay, so we can only rely on the financial resources of the Zheng family. Auntie, Anguo Gongfu is no longer the old Anguogongfu .”

Under the attack of Wu Haolong's series of words, Empress Wu's reserved pride finally faded completely, leaving only endless exhaustion and bewilderment.

"What promise did the Zheng family give you?" After a long time, Queen Wu's low voice sounded.

"I treated Zheng Yanniang kindly, and they devoted all of the Zheng family's financial resources to help our Wu family make a comeback." In the end, all anger was replaced by depression, and Wu Haolong said weakly.

"Your father and I are getting old, you and your older brothers are the future of the Wu family, I think you know better than anyone else what to do, you can figure out what to do with the Zheng family! "In the end, Empress Wu gave up on intervening in the affairs between Wu Haolong and Zheng Yanniang.

Zheng Yanniang followed Lady Su around the Imperial Garden and returned to the Central Palace. After dinner in the Central Palace, she was rewarded with a phoenix hairpin by Empress Wu, and the two left the palace.

After leaving the palace and getting into the carriage, Zheng Yanniang said gratefully to Wu Haolong: "Thank you for helping me hide the empress empress, don't worry, I won't occupy your wife's seat for too long, Yunlang promised me, even if you leave All the wealth of the Zheng family will also take me far away."

Wu Haolong was not interested in hearing her talk about the eternal alliance between her and her lover, so he just replied indifferently: "Your father and eldest brother promised to help the Wu family make a comeback, and in exchange, it is to protect your reputation from damage, so naturally I will not break my promise. "

(End of this chapter)