Emperor Phoenix Policy: Feng Qingtian

Chapter 96 The Queen Mother
"Empress Dowager, did you kill the late Emperor?"

The Empress Dowager smiled slightly, without saying a word, Zhong Mo stared at her like a torch.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager sighed and said quietly, "General, it has been six years. You have been asking the Ai family this question for six years. How many more years will you ask?"

"Ask until you get the real answer!"

The Empress Dowager's tone was a little raised, and her voice was a little excited, "What is the real answer? Aijia answered it five times, and now I am answering you for the sixth time, no! The first emperor was not killed by Aijia! You have heard this answer six times, but You are dissatisfied, you think this is not true, since you have already determined that the late emperor was killed by the Ai family, why bother to ask the Ai family?"

On Zhong Mo's dark and rough face, there was an expression of reminiscence, and his tone became heavy, "When I left Beijing and returned to northern Xinjiang, the late emperor was ill, but he was in good spirits, and he went to the gate of the city to see me off. When I arrived in the northern border, I heard the news that his illness had suddenly become serious. When I rushed to the imperial capital day and night, the news of his death came before I reached the imperial capital. This is impossible!"

"What's impossible? When you left Beijing, he had been ill for almost half a year. At that time, you came back to deal with Tiger Talisman. Because during the Chinese New Year, the late emperor's spirit became better. This is common sense. Since you left, his body has deteriorated. I couldn't hold it anymore, I lay on the dragon couch almost day and night, and I seldom even got up. Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature, Aijia doesn't understand, why do you keep targeting Aijia, thinking that Aijia killed the first emperor?"

The Empress Dowager's tone became sad and helpless, and on her thin and pale cheeks there was a sadness that made a man's heart soften.

Although the Empress Dowager was nearly forty years old and had fine lines at the end of her eyes, her charm was still there, especially under the light of the dim yellow candlelight, her thin and sad face was even more charming.

Zhong Mo's eyes dimmed, and he moved his gaze away slightly, not daring to look any more. He cleared his throat, and said in a low voice, "Back then, the late Emperor was ill in bed, and only you, His Majesty the Queen, and Wang Quan, the head of the House of Internal Affairs, served by his side. I asked Wang Quan, and he said that you were the only one in the palace the night the late emperor died."

A faint cold light flashed through the lowered eyelids of the Queen Mother. She raised her eyelids and showed a sneering sneer, "Because only the Ai family is there, so you suspect that the Ai family killed the first emperor? General, don't you think this reason is too ridiculous?" Is it? Throughout the ages, when people die, they are not accompanied by their wives and children, who else can they have? Then throughout the ages, those who died of illness were killed by their wives and children?"

"The late emperor loved Concubine Hui the most..."

A cold light flashed in the Empress Dowager's eyes, and she sneered, "When the late Emperor died, Concubine Hui was already dead!"

"I know that the first emperor died the night Concubine Hui died. Doesn't the Empress Dowager think it's a coincidence?"

The sarcasm on the Empress Dowager's face was undisguised, and she sneered, "Didn't the General say that? The late Emperor loved Concubine Hui the most, and the news of Concubine Hui's death reached his ears. His heartbroken, his illness worsened, and he passed away." , isn't it normal? Or, he can't bear his beloved woman walking alone on Huangquan Road, and wants to accompany her?"

In the last sentence, the Empress Dowager's tone was full of cynicism, and the resentment on her face was very glaring.

Zhong Mo frowned and looked at her, "You shouldn't be this kind of person, you have changed!"

The queen mother's pale lips slowly rose, showing a sneer of sarcasm, "What kind of person should Aijia be?"

"Concubine Hui is very kind and respectful to you. You shouldn't have treated her like that, you shouldn't have designed to frame her and put her in limbo!"

There was a hint of sarcasm in the Queen Mother's eyes, "It is true that Aijia designed and framed her, but it was not Aijia who put her in the cold palace, but the man who claimed to love her the most, didn't he? The first emperor kept saying that he loved her so much, But do you have the slightest trust in her? However, the false accusations from the close maid, a few vague words from the guards, and a piece of veil made by her made Long Yan furious, regardless of her explanation, and cast her into the limbo .”

Zhong Mo frowned, trying to explain to the late emperor, "Men can't tolerate such things."

The Empress Dowager smiled coldly, and the strong sarcasm on her face made Zhong Mo's face a little embarrassed.

After a long time, Zhong Mo sighed, "I remember you were not like this at that time. You were dignified and virtuous, and your mother respected the world. In order to boost morale, you disregarded the dignity of the queen and your pregnant Liujia, and stood on the tower to beat the drums. But how did you change later? gone?"

The queen mother sneered, "General, is Aijia the only person who has changed? Why did the late emperor become more, you don't mention him, just Aijia?"

Zhong Mo frowned, "He is the emperor, he is the son of heaven..."

"Not only that, is it? He is the emperor, so you can't speak of him as a subject, and the Ai family is also your master, why do you have no scruples? The most important thing is that you and him are both men, and men protect men. "

Zhong Mo's rough thick eyebrows frowned even tighter, wondering if the Queen Mother's words hit his mind, he fell into silence.

"As a man, he can love his concubine when his wife has a miscarriage and is bedridden. So when his wife can no longer have children, he can ask her to abdicate and not occupy the position of queen? How ridiculous! Aijia's body is broken and can't regenerate, isn't it all for him? It's good to be a man, Aijia only hates being a daughter!"

The empress dowager's eyes were slightly red, and the words she said were scraped on Zhong Mo's face like a knife, making his expression even more rigid. Zhong Mo opened his lips, trying to defend the late emperor, but he couldn't.

The Empress Dowager's eyes became distant and misty, as if she was caught in a long memory, "Ai's family has been married to him for 15 years, and the companionship and support for the entire 15 years is actually no better than a concubine who has just entered the palace."

"When he was the prince, the Ai family had already married him as the prince's concubine. The Ai family accompanied him to fight for the throne with the King of Jiangdong, and helped him make suggestions. Do your best to serve in front of the Empress Dowager, defeated the concubine of King Jiangdong, can you reverse the situation little by little? It’s not that the Ai family can’t give birth to a boy. The overwork is gone, and the second time, during the war against the Huns ten years ago, I was also overworked and had a miscarriage."

"Aijia is wholeheartedly for his throne, his country is running, he is exhausted, he lost his child twice, but how did he treat Aijia? As soon as he ascended the throne, he immediately picked and picked those delicate and beautiful flowers in the harem. One after another, it reflects that Aijia is getting older and more decrepit, these are nothing, Aijia bears it!"

The queen mother's expression became sad and helpless, "But when Aijia's body was broken and the imperial doctor diagnosed that Aijia could no longer bear children, Aijia still remembered his expression at that time. It was not heartache, but anger! He was angry that Aijia gave He can't be a prince! So, he doted on the concubines in the harem even more, and he didn't even come on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, which was supposed to belong to the empress. There's no need to waste it, General, don't you think it's ridiculous? Waste! There are only two days in a month that belong to the empress of the palace, and he told Ai's family to waste it! Does he think Ai's family is still rare?"

The Empress Dowager's voice suddenly rose, and her expression was cold and stern, Zhong Mo fell silent, speechless.

It took a while for the empress dowager to calm down, and said coldly, "Finally, his hard work has paid off. The concubines became pregnant one after another, but it's a pity that one after another miscarried."

The Empress Dowager's face was full of gloating, Zhong Mo frowned, "You did it?"

"The Ai family didn't do anything, they just told the younger sisters in the harem that the Ai family was incompetent and could not give birth to a prince for the late emperor, and whoever of the sisters could give birth to the first prince for the late emperor, the Ai family must persuade the late emperor to make him the crown prince. Who doesn't want their own son to be the emperor? Who doesn't want to be the queen mother?"

"So, under your instigation, they fought each other and framed each other, so that the children in the harem either could not be born or died! Empress Dowager, you are too vicious!"

Zhong Mo sternly said, and the Queen Mother smiled coolly, "Vicious? No, Aijia is not vicious! The late emperor praised Aijia for being virtuous and virtuous!"

The sternness on her face gradually became helpless and sad, and her tone became sad and self-deprecating, "virtuous and virtuous? How dare the Ai family not be virtuous and virtuous? The Ai family's natal family had already collapsed because of him during the war of succession , The Ai family has no natal family to rely on, how can a childless queen not be virtuous and virtuous? The Ai family can bear it, and can vent their resentment and anger for a moment, but what about the only daughter of the Ai family? "

(End of this chapter)